PROPOSAL: licensing guidelines
Dan Kegel
dank at alumni.caltech.edu
Wed May 17 09:44:25 PDT 2000
Maurizio De Cecco wrote:
> Erik Troan <ewt at redhat.com> writes:
> > > - Clause 9. License Must Not Contaminate Other Software.
> > > While using the GPL for libraries is conformant with this OSD
> > > requirement, we do not want the runtime linking of any GPL
> > > libraries to be required for conformance with our standards.
>
> The standard define the API, while the licence cover the implementation, right ?
>
> Should this then translate that the standard should include only library APIs for which
> at least one Open Source that is not GPL implementation exists ?
>
> Who is going to explain this to Mr. Stallman ?
I think he already understands. For libraries that must achieve
extremely wide deployment, and for which the GPL is too restrictive,
he has devised the LGPL.
- Dan
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