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Re: FAST C++ open-source contribution
Dimitry London / Morgan Stanley <>
7 Apr 2008 3:44PM ET Hi everyone,
so having done some initial research and based on on the original feedback from the forum, the license for our open-source implementation will most likely be an FPL-like license with no additional restrictions. There are still legal issues/concerns being researched at this time.
The ETA for the initial release is sometime mid/end summer.
Dimitry
> 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...
> >
> > 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
Dimitry London / Morgan Stanley 7 Apr 2008 3:44PM ET
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