Re: testing before a release

[Etienne M. Gagnon]

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:57:30PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> Not necessarily opposed in principle, but the practical problems of coming
> up with a new license, with discussing it and getting everyone to agree, 
> changing
> all the files to use it, etc, means it is not a practical course. 
> Except for RMS,
> almost everyone can live with GPL+exception, and is not really interested in
> changing, except for fixing the AWT problem.

I think tha if people already take the time to debate the AWT license change, 
they might
just as well solve the huge hole in the GPL+exception license by choosing a 
license which simply
says what they intend.  If people want a "LGPL--" license, they should not use 
a "GPL--"
license.  One the the big advantages of an "LGPL--" license is that it makes 
the library
much friendlier to use within larger "LGPL" libraries (no problems with taking 
a few
lines of code here and there, which is not possible under a "GPL--" license).

Of course, by (L)GPL-- I mean "(L)GPL+exception"


Etienne

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