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Couple points...
Couple points...
Posted Feb 26, 2004 4:08 UTC (Thu) by frazier (subscriber, #3060)In reply to: Couple points... by yodermk
Parent article: X11: Where do we go from here?
You'll notice that with MySQL the problem wasn't due to the LGPL or GPL, but rather a licensing change fencing in some existing MySQL users to either be tied to licensing fees and stick with MySQL or migrate to another database.
With XFree86 it's a similar deal, a licensing change caused a problem. Neither of these issues are the fault of the GPL or LGPL but rather the change in licenses elsewhere.
My proposed solution: Have a license that is a cross between the GPL and the LGPL.Yet Another License will introduce more licensing problems.
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Couple points...
Posted Feb 26, 2004 5:19 UTC (Thu) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]
With both MySQL and XFree, the reasons distros aren't shipping with the new version is because the new licenses are incompatible with some of the other software included. The point is that the license of the client libraries are all that really matters.If a distro ships a non-GPL application using MySQL, it cannot upgrade to 4.0.
With XFree, if indeed the new license covered the client libraries, then distros could not ship it because it would violate the GPL license of included programs which link to XFree clients. And THAT is what I hear people complaining about. But since the client libs are apparently still under the old license, I really don't see the problem.
> Yet Another License will introduce more licensing problems.
Why? My proposed license would solve quite a few problems IMHO. The only disadvantage would maybe be a bit more confusion.
Couple points...
Posted Feb 27, 2004 16:21 UTC (Fri) by frazier (subscriber, #3060) [Link]
With both MySQL and XFree, the reasons distros aren't shipping with the new version is because the new licenses are incompatible with some of the other software included. The point is that the license of the client libraries are all that really matters.I think the real point is that if XF86 and MySQL hadn't changed licensing terms, the current license incompatibility breaks wouldn't have occured in the first place.
Couple points...
Posted Feb 27, 2004 23:41 UTC (Fri) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803) [Link]
What license incompatibility breaks? Since XFree did apparently not change the license of its client libs, I don't think there are any!