I came to this discussion late but how about a BSD style licence?

marc

----- Original Message -----
From: Ann Harrison <harrison@...>
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Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [IBDI] Which license(s)?


> From: Ann Harrison <harrison@...>
>
> From Raz:
>
> From Raz:
>
> >- Which open source license will be used? (I assume MPL.)
>
> Yes.
>
> >- If MPL, which version? (I hope 1.1.)
>
> Yes.
>
> >- If 1.1, will the multiple-licensed code provisions be utilised? (I
> >hope so.)
>
> They will be intact, but we don't anticipate using them immediately.
>
> >- If so, is LGPL an option?
>
> Interesting question. I'm not entirely sure what the benefits
> are.
>
> >Perhaps the situation is still being considered, in that case a clear
> >indication of what needs to be achieved first would be appreciated.
>
> We need a license that meets open source standards and the standards
> of corporate legal departments. InterBase has an existing user
> base. We like them (well, most of them). If we a license that
> appears to move their code into open source without their consent,
> they will choose a different database.
>
> >Assuming MPL: perhaps the multiple-license provisions haven't been
> >considered. If so, I humbly offer my services as advocate of this
> >approach. The Mozilla organisation has acknowledged the damage that
> >choosing to exclude GPL integration did to Mozilla, notably that the
> >highly energetic Gnome developers were excluded by this choice. Indeed,
> >the inclusion of the multiple license provisions in MPL-1.1 was
> >apparently motivated by this realisation.
>
> Would you elaborate on this? I understand that the Gnome developers
> prefer GPL/LGPL ... we've certainly had that argument on this list
> and around the Interbase 2000 site. The general (though certainly
> not universal) conclusion was that even LGPL would not sit well
> with corporate legal departments. There were some who felt that
> was a good thing, but ...
>
> If we used multiple-licensing and put out an LGPL version and the
> Gnome developers contributed, could we bring their contributions
> into the main-line, MPL 1.1 licensed code?
>
>
> Ann
> Power-to-be at Interbase (I hope).
>
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