Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] jscalendar

[Chris Weiss]

no, we have a LGPL api.  a GPL api could eaily use LGPL classes without 
relicensing,
but then someone couldn't release a closed app that uses the api...

Lars Kneschke (address@hidden) wrote:
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>Chris Weiss <address@hidden> schrieb:
>>>Today it is more important for our project to have the right license
>>then
>>>producing code. This is something that makes me really unhappy!!!
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>>that's too bad.  Being a gnu project means we're protected under the
>>FSF's legal
>>umbrella and we get free bandwidth for the web server.  It's
>>potentially worth
>>millions of dollars to "have the right license".  Not to mention the
>>nice cushy
>>feeling of making a product that's truely "free"...
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>I don't feel "Truely free" at the moment.
>If we have a GPL only api we need to relicense LGPL classes as GPL to be
>able to use them. This is something i would not like, because the author
>just had something in his mind, when he selected the LGPL.
>So currently we keep our self from using existing free classes. We gives me
>no nice cushy feeling.
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>>>I'm i the only one who feels like this?
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>>probably not, but I think you're not in the majority...
>>
>Maybe. But it is nice to know, what others mean.
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