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Re: FAST C++ open-source contribution
Dimitry London / Morgan Stanley <>
19 Mar 2008 11:18AM ETRolf, thanks for the response.
It sounds that the license is not an issue, and it sounds that LGPL might be the most appropriate. What would you recommend in terms of software distribution (assuming that we make tar containing source and necessary make instructions)?
Thanks again,
Dimitry
> Dimitry,
>
> I appreciate your willingness to help the community.
>
> The license we used on the original contributions were based on the W3C
> license, which gives users a lot of freedom not to share.
>
> The GPL restricts the way your code can be used, LGPL is somewhat less
> restrictive but still requires source code for the library (including
> any changes) to be offered whenever the library is re-distributed.
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> That said, I think you should use the license that you and your
> organisation are comfortable with.
>
> Thank you for contributing, Rolf
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> > Hi,
> >
> > Morgan Stanley has developed lightweight C++ implementation that
> > supports most of the encoding/decoding features of FAST protocol.
> > The implementation also supports loading FAST configuration from an
> > XML file.
> >
> > We would like to contribute this C++ code as an open-source
> > contribution under the terms of public GPL license - so that any
> > subsequent changes would have to be made in the source code form (not
> > just binary extension). GPL is the requirement for a number of
> > reasons, not only from our own code perspective but also because other
> > opensource libraries (such as libxml) come under GPL and may be
> > incompatible with license(s) that allow changes without releasing the
> > actual source code.
> >
> > Is it possible to make a contribution under GPL license (as I
> > described above), or is the FPL license required for any such a
> > contribution?
> >
> > Thanks very much, Dimitry
Re: FAST C++ open-source contribution
Dimitry London / Morgan Stanley 19 Mar 2008 11:18AM ET
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