Re: The license question

[Peter Nugent <Peter Nugent Sun COM>]

Hi Roozbeh,
yes LGPL is fine with us although we have a preference for CDDL 
(OpenSolaris and other Sun tools are released under this).
Would it be possible to do this under CDDL ?

thx
Peter


Roozbeh Pournader ha scritto:
> > From what Keith Packard told me on the IRC, it seems that the license
> question is a very important one.
>
> We will limit our users if we do it in LGPL, the most important one
> being Qt. They don't do dependencies on LGPL libraries, it seems.
>
> The only choice would be a BSD- or MIT-like license, if we are thinking
> of future expansion, which would require us to code lots of stuff from
> scratch.
>
> I would say I would go for the LGPL, to be able to use already existing
> code, specially since we may not be able to win the Qt guys anyway,
> since they already have a locale system in place. Doing it in LGPL would
> make it somehow a refactoring project, while doing it in BSD/MIT would
> be a huge rewriting of everything from scratch.
>
> Question from Sun guys: You don't have objections with the license, do
> you?
>
> Roozbeh