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Re: FAST C++ open-source contribution
Rolf Andersson / Pantor Engineering
24 Mar 2008 5:17PM ET If you go back and read what Dimitry wrote in his first post:
"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)."
Quid pro quo,
/Rolf
> Dimitry I strongly suggest you look at the BSD or Apache style
> licenses.
>
> The BSD License allows proprietary commercial use, and for the
> software released under the license to be incorporated into
> proprietary commercial products. Works based on the material may
> even be released under a proprietary license (but still must
> maintain the license requirements). Some notable examples of
> this are the use of BSD networking code in Microsoft products,
> [2] and the use of numerous FreeBSD components in Mac OS X.[3]
> It is possible for something to be distributed with the BSD
> License and some other license to apply as well. This was in
> fact the case with very early versions of BSD itself, which
> included proprietary material from AT&T.
Re: FAST C++ open-source contribution
Rolf Andersson / Pantor Engineering 24 Mar 2008 5:17PM ET
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