Re: License problem with Re: AvantGo

[Patrick Decowski <decowski mit edu>]

On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, [iso-8859-1] Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 
> If we want gnome-pilot to be a big success we must allow non-free conduits 
> to be built ontop of it.  If not, no comercial company will write conduits 
> for gnome-pilot (unless they are GPL-fans).
> 
> The gnome-pilot-libraries shouldn be LGPL IMHO.  This doesn't mean that the 
> rest of gnome-pilot should be LGPL but at least the libraries.

i also feel that making gpilotd libs LGPL is the way to go. the rest
of gnome-pilot should stay GPL. if you look at pilot-link, they also
chose to do it in this way. libpisock is LGPL - that is why
malsync (non GPL) can use it! - and the rest is GPL. 

patrick.

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