Comments on: PowerTime licence issues http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/powertime-licence-issues/ Your daily IT cuppa Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jack Hughes http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/powertime-licence-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-6458 Jack Hughes Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:13:46 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/?p=435#comment-6458 @Alan - we've gone with GPL v3... @Alan – we’ve gone with GPL v3…

]]> By: The Open Sourcerer http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/powertime-licence-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-6457 The Open Sourcerer Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:11:05 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/?p=435#comment-6457 The rise and rise of the GPL would be more than enough comfort for me. IANAL but I think you are right about the (binary) library and the GPL, in fact this is oone of the reasons that the LGPL came about from what I recall. There is a pretty good plain-English description of GPL vs LGPL on the Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL If you also consider that Sun have chosen the GPL for Java, and are looking like they will do so for OpenSolaris, when they could have used their own own OSS license (CDDL) I think that speaks very loudly. Good luck with your project. (Now all you need to do is make it cross-platform ;-) ) The rise and rise of the GPL would be more than enough comfort for me.

IANAL but I think you are right about the (binary) library and the GPL, in fact this is oone of the reasons that the LGPL came about from what I recall. There is a pretty good plain-English description of GPL vs LGPL on the Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGPL

If you also consider that Sun have chosen the GPL for Java, and are looking like they will do so for OpenSolaris, when they could have used their own own OSS license (CDDL) I think that speaks very loudly.

Good luck with your project.

(Now all you need to do is make it cross-platform ;-) )

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