Licensing of Lisaac

[Pierre-Alexandre Voye]

It's something we discussing before change the licence, but there are a lot
of question regarding, what we want to do (we are agree to let people choose
his liecence of his code), and how it could be possible.
There's also an history of the project, with several french institution
which own the copyright of some code.

The choice is between GPL with exception, LGPL, etc...
Nicolas made a review of different licence :
http://lisaac.u-strasbg.fr/index.php/Licence_pour_une_lib_open_source

We have to choose now, because almost (I hope all ) all the author of the
code will be here.
So, becose you wrote some code, we'll ask you if you are agree with our
choice (and conclusion, it could be interesting)

So it's a very difficult question, and the debate is intense :-)

2009/8/26 Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowgar.com>

> Watching some of the French email's go by, I see quite a few references
> to GPLv3. Here's the deal... If Lisaac is licensed under the GPLv3, then
> that will prevent any commercial development (software for sale w/o
> source code) from being created. This will cut Lisaac out of a large
> market.
>
> The compiler can be licensed as GPLv3, but the library cannot. That
> library is translated into C code. If the library is licensed as GPLv3,
> then the C code that results from the translation of that library is
> also licensed as GPLv3. Then, John Doe, who wants to create a software
> package for sale, has to distribute his source code as well because he
> is linking to GPLv3 code (the library).
>
> I hope that the intention of Lisaac is to allow John Doe to be able to
> create software that he can choose to distribute however he pleases?
> i.e. he can license it as open source or he can license it as commercial
> software and sell it.
>
> If this is the intention, then I can offer some alternative open source
> licenses that will protect Lisaac but also provide true freedom for the
> developer, but please do not distribute Lisaac as GPLv3.
>
> --
> Jeremy Cowgar <jeremy at cowgar.com>
>
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