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Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Sep 8 19:29:01 EDT 2003


Monte Goulding wrote:

> 
>>> Scott will have to use the LGPL licence I think, which is what the
>>> current project is set up for. I can help with advice, on how to use the
>>> Sourceforge account for anyone interested in contributing.
>> 
>> Could it be changed to GPL?  Or is there an advantage to LGPL over GPL for
>> this project?
>> 
> 
> I don't think LGPL is really inteded for this kind of thing. It's more for
> libraries that can be included in commercial apps without breaking the
> license or making the commercial app open source.
> 
> Personally I'd suggest Scott and RunRev choose a licensing scheme that
> allows them to incorporate anything in MC into Rev. They may aswell get
> something out of their generosity.

Good thought.  But as Scott retains copyright, wouldn't that be covered in
the GPL's allowance of commercial work outside of GPL governance to be
nogotiable by the copyright holder?

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