Re: The license question

[Peter Nugent <Peter Nugent Sun COM>]

Hi Behdad,
ok , so does this mean LGPL is the preferred or most likely choice or is 
still up for discussion ?

Peter



Behdad Esfahbod ha scritto:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Peter Nugent wrote:
>
>
> > 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 ?
>
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Guess no.  We're too restricted by other conditions.  Most
> important one is that as it's becoming more and more clear,
> there's a lot that needs to be done to be able to use CLDR data,
> so we are definitely going to borrow data from other projects.
> So essentially it's not quite like we choose the license...
>
> behdad
>
>
>
>
> > 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
> >
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