Re: FLTK? (OT: licenses)

[Glenn Maynard <glenn@...>]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 06:32:01PM +0100, Jamie Webb wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 02:44:14AM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > The LGPL will prevent you from ever using the library on a proprietary
> > system.  This includes all major gaming consoles, which is an important
> > target that anyone with hopes of selling their game project needs to
> > remember.  The LGPL requires that end users be able to re-link the LGPL
> > portion into the final program, and you're prohibited from doing that
> > on all of the major consoles.  (Since Lua is commonly used in games, I
> > think this is relevant.)
> 
> Yes, the LGPL is very badly designed. But the concept seems a good
> one. If we assume that the goal is to allow the software to 'be the
> best it can be', i.e. to be available to the most people and also to
> have the most contributors, then we desire both to encourage commercial
> use and to ensure that those commercial users still contribute back
> their improvements. Consequently, I am now in favour of MPL-style
> licensing for most purposes.



> 
> The rule is basically that you are free to include MPLed code in a
> larger commercial work, but you must contribute back changes to the
> specific files that make up the original MPLed work. So, it's (weakly)

I don't want to force people to give me stuff they don't want to, because
frankly, if someone doesn't *want* to contribute, I don't want to deal
with them in the first place.  

> copyleft, but not viral. A company that really wanted to could
> probably find loopholes (e.g. maintain their changes as patches that
> are only applied at build time?), but it seems likely that few would
> find that desirable or legally safe.
> 
> The MPL also has a few flaws though for use on projects other than
> Mozilla, e.g. it requires that litigation take place in Santa Clara
> (since that's where Netscape is based). So, rather surprisingly, what
> I consider to be the best license I have found was actually penned
> fairly recently by people at Sun Microsystems. It's called the CDDL
> and is essentially the MPL with various flaws fixed. More information
> at http://www.sun.com/cddl/.

Another thing I like about the X11 license is its simplicity.  This
license is pages long, and would probably 

> 
> -- Jamie Webb

-- 
Glenn Maynard