Open Source Licence (LGPL or GPL)

Scott Raney raney at metacard.com
Tue Sep 9 22:07:01 EDT 2003


A couple of points on the license-type debate:
1) We don't really care what license you use: anything from public domain
(least restrictive) to Artistic License (what PERL uses) to GPL (most
restrictive) would be fine.
2) A concern with using GPL is that anything moved into your application
with the "Resource Mover" results in some of the virus-like aspects of GPL
kicking it (i.e., you'd be required to release a version of your app without
those stacks so the end-user could replace them).  This makes LGPL a better
bet, if something even this restrictive is desired.
  Regards,
    Scott




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