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Re: FAST C++ open-source contribution
Rolf Andersson / Pantor Engineering
19 Mar 2008 11:03AM ETDimitry,
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.
That said, I think you should use the license that you and your organisation are comfortable with.
Thank you for contributing,
Rolf
> 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.
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> 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
Rolf Andersson / Pantor Engineering 19 Mar 2008 11:03AM ET
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