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Re: Parts Library License
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lugnet.cad
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Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:12:13 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Santiágo Peresón writes:
> In lugnet.cad, Leonardo Zide writes:
> > Here's what I hope to be the final version of the license. Let me know
> > if you have any comments, if nobody wants to change anything it will
> > become the official license (that's why I'm cross posting to several
> > newsgroups).
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> (maybe this has been discussed around here... if so, please kindly forget
> this message)
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> why don't you GPL it?
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> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
> http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html
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> the GNU GPL & LGPL licenses are quite developed, well known, and free for
> all. you've got lots of info and experience from other developers that use
> it, and quite a lot of precedents should a problem arise. developers wanting
> to link to the parts lib would probably know what to expect from it, etc.
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> i'm not affiliated in any way with GNU, other than respecting most of the
> things they do, and using lots of GPL-ed soft.
I support the license Leonardo posted.
I oppose use of LGPL (the appropriate one of the two given the scope)
because it "pollutes" derivative works. I do not want to see everyone in a
position where they HAVE to give away whatever they did that uses the
library, including images generated with it.
++Lar
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