[Gpe-list] Use of LGPL

[Koen Kooi]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Neal H. Walfield schreef:
> I share code I write because I want to share it.  I think that
> knowledge should be shared and, as such, I place significant code that
> I write, with some exceptions, under the auspices of the GPL and try
> to contribute to projects which develop GPL licensed code.  I do this
> because, I think that if someone is going to build on my ideas, they
> should also share them.  I do not distinguish between modifying and
> using here: they are both building on and, in both cases, should
> require sharing.
> 
> Some time ago, Florian informed me that the policy for GPE is that all
> libraries should be under the LGPL.  The two libraries which I have
> contributed to are libeventdb and libgpevtype.  Before I started
> working on libeventdb, it was under the GPL [1].  I have since been
> told that this was a mistake.  The code that I contributed to
> libgpevtype, I developed in the context of gpe-calendar.  I added it
> to libgpevtype later.  It accounts for approximately half of the code
> in libgpevtype.
> 
> I have intentions of doing further work on GPE.  I'd like to know what
> the community's view on this issue is.  Is this policy the one the
> community prefers?  Does the community feel that all libraries must be
> licensed under the LGPL and would prefer to refuse the integration of
> enhancements if they were under the GPL?

IMO the libs should be GPL as well, but I'm just a user.

regards,

Koen
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin)

iD8DBQFF5HNLMkyGM64RGpERArnTAJ9KiANknzd+iKkOqcBrgaoRq8+fXACfdKkp
iHwBg/z9rRakmBMmdey9+0g=
=pYnT
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----