Re: [Savannah-help-public] License change

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

I see that you thought about it - I don't have a point on this
decision.

I updated your project license.

-- 
Sylvain


On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:44:50PM +0100, Alexandre Becoulet wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:22:33AM +0100, Alexandre Becoulet wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > > I would like to switch the qtlua project license to LGPLv3 to stick to Qt
> > > and QtScript and license change. Thanks.
> 
> > Do you know that you do not have to change your license?
> >
> > (Incidentally Qt did not switch to LGPLv3, but added LGPL v=2.1 in
> > addition to GPLv3)
> 
> Yes, I have read the http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html article 
> and 
> really thought about it. It is not an easy to take decision. What's me make 
> belive LGPL may be suited for my project is this part of the article:
> 
> "The most common case is when a free library's features are readily available 
> for proprietary software through other alternative libraries. In that case, 
> the library cannot give free software any particular advantage, so it is 
> better to use the Lesser GPL for that library."
> 
> The QtScript module is very close to QtLua and is now embedded as a core part 
> of Qt. It was not the case when I started to develop QtLua back in 2006. Even 
> if QtScript is internally produced by Nokia, it is not proprietary software 
> though. But QtScript is LGPL, making use of GPL of less interest to stand 
> against proprietary software is that particular Qt/scripting related software 
> area. That's why I doubt using GPL here still give any advantage to free 
> software or to the project.