Re: libseed-list Seed License modification request

[Jonatan Liljedahl <lijon kymatica com>]

Hi Alexandre,

Sure, this is fine with me.

/Jonatan

On 03/04/2011 07:40 PM, Alexandre Mazari wrote:
> Hi !
>
> You received this mail because you contributed code to the Seed project.
>
> 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 to switch Seed to a LGPL 2+ licence
> model. Of course, this would requires an agreement from you, as a
> contributor.
>
> Does such a request seem reasonable to you ?
>
> Please make your answer public on the Seed mailing lst so we can be sure
> everybody is agreeing, and if not, for what reason.
>
> Thanks for considering this and all your great work.
>
> Happy Coding,