From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7614 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2003 15:10:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7588 invoked from network); 20 Oct 2003 15:10:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO eth0.b.smtp.sonic.net) (64.142.19.4) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Oct 2003 15:10:52 -0000 Received: from hawksoft.com (209-204-163-3.vpn.sonic.net [209.204.163.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by eth0.b.smtp.sonic.net (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h9KFAmuf019920 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:10:51 -0700 Message-ID: <3F93FAF9.4030000@hawksoft.com> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:10:00 -0000 From: "Phil Frisbie, Jr." Organization: Hawk Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: License wars References: <20031020124511.BA246D8@murray.nsw.cmis.CSIRO.AU> In-Reply-To: <20031020124511.BA246D8@murray.nsw.cmis.CSIRO.AU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00113.txt.bz2 Hugues Talbot wrote: > Dear Alexander, I need to add my $.02 worth of opinion here. > The LGPL's intention is to let people use Free software into > proprietary code as long as they go through some slightly annoying > hoops, while ensuring that the Free software itself remains Free. I > think this is what we want (in broad terms). This is EXACTLY why I chose the LGPL for my free open source code libraries. For example, my own HawkVoice library, which provides speech compression to games and other applications, is being used in TeamSound, which is used in Sony Entertainment's PlanetSide. The credits are here: http://planetside.station.sony.com/howto/manual_detail.jsp?id=55531 , just scroll down to the TeamSound logo and read the LGPL required note. > Now I've scanned through the CPL and it does not seem to protect the > Free software in any way that is clearly spelled. The LGPL says that > if you modify the original Free software then your modification must > also be Free. The CPL does not spell what a derivative work is. Is > it anyone's guess ? do you have to be a copyright laywer to have some > opinion on this? > > You may not agree with the LGPL definition of a derivative work but at > least it's there. I have used several free libraries in the past and have always been grateful enough to pass on enhancements back into the libraries. Of course, as the copyright holder of my libraries I reserve the right to license my libraries other ways, even closed source if I choose, but that is another topic altogether. -- Phil Frisbie, Jr. Hawk Software http://www.hawksoft.com