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Re: FAST C++ open-source contribution
Joakim Johansson / Tbricks
25 Mar 2008 5:19AM ET Hi Dimitry,
I think it is a great initiative, but I would also point out that if you go the path of GPL (or even LGPL) you will exclude many commercial organizations from contributing at all, as the GPL license is unacceptable for many commercial projects (oh, the irony).
Thus, this becomes somewhat counterproductive, as organizations that might be interested in contributing to the project would rule out the use of your software solely based on the license agreement and would thus be excluded.
I would try to find an OSI approved license that requires foldback but does not require open sourcing of the whole application (C++ templates or not)... Otherwise perhaps you should roll your own based on one of the really free licenses (like BSD), but just add a clause requiring foldback of changes, then it would be useful for a much larger audience...
Cheers,
Joakim
> Everyone, thanks very much for detailed feedback. I see that my post
> generated quite a discussion...
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> Rolf is absolutely correct, though - whatever license we will choose we
> would like to preserve that requirement that the future contributions
> are available in the source code form. So, it looks that the only
> choice is between GPL and LGPL although I admit that will have to do
> more research.
>
> Dimitry
Re: FAST C++ open-source contribution
Joakim Johansson / Tbricks 25 Mar 2008 5:19AM ET
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