Re: libseed-list Seed Licensing

["Alan Knowles" <alan akbkhome com>]

I'm fine with my (albeit small) contributions being re-licenced under LGPL2+

I'm guessing you need agreement by the original authors + contributors as far as possible.

Regards
Alan

 --- On 04/Mar/2011, Alexandre Mazari wrote: 
> Hello Seeders,
> 
> As part of the Webkit Gtk port, we are currently investigating adding an
> API to expose a GObject within a Webframe js context.
> 
> Seed already has most of the plumbing required to expose GIR types and
> instances in a JSCore engine so there might be a good opportunity to
> share this code with your agreement.
> 
> Though, this would expose a licensing issue. Indeed, Seed sources can
> only be redistributed in a codebase licensed under the LGPL3+ where
> webkit-gtk is licensed under LGPL2+. FSF advisors confirmed that
> redistributing some Seed-derived code within webkit-gtk would be a
> breach of Seed licensing terms.
> 
> The obvious solution would be that Seed switches to a LGPL 2+ licence
> model. Of course, this would requires an agreement from you guys (and
> girls).
> 
> Does such a request seem reasonable to you ?
> 
> Thanks for considering this and all your great work.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Alexandre Mazari <amazari igalia com>
> 
> 
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