[Gpe-list] Use of LGPL

[Florian Boor]

Hi Neal,

Neal H. Walfield schrieb:
> 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?

even if we finshed this discussion years ago and I don't really want to repeat
it over and over I think I need to participate.