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Re: FAST C++ open-source contribution
Dimitry London / Morgan Stanley <>
24 Mar 2008 9:50PM ETEveryone, 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
> If you go back and read what Dimitry wrote in his first post:
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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)."
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> Quid pro quo, /Rolf
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> > 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
Dimitry London / Morgan Stanley 24 Mar 2008 9:50PM ET
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