[Biococoa-dev] license again

[Alexander Griekspoor]

Same here. I'd strongly be in favor of BSD.
Best wishes,
Alex

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:13 AM, Charles Parnot
<charles.parnot at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have contributed some code, and for my part, LGPL or BSD licenses would
> work fine. I would tend to prefer BSD as it just removes headaches down the
> road.
>
> charles
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> On May 18, 2009, at 4:34 PM, Scott Christley wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Well as I mentioned before, I've been working to get BioCocoa provided
>> with Debian/Ubuntu automatically.  I've been working with the debian-med
>> group.  Anyways, they pointed out a license issue, but I misunderstood the
>> complete extent.  I thought it was just an issue that a couple of files had
>> some funky licensing requirements which we got cleaned up, but in fact
>> Debian considers the Creative Commons V2.5 license to be non-free.  Now this
>> doesn't completely prevent us from working with Debian, because we can be
>> put into the non-free repository, but I didn't think this was the intent of
>> BioCocoa as it really prevents it from being broadly distributed.
>>
>> There is a newer Creative Commons V3.0 license which Debian does consider
>> to be free; however, there is apparently a conflict between CC v3.0 and the
>> GPL which doesn't allow them to be mixed.  What a pain huh?!  One of the
>> Debian maintainers pointed me to this where Creative Commons themselves
>> suggest not to use their license for software.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F
>>
>>
>> So the question I have, is there a specific reason for CC v2.5?  The
>> switch occurred with V2.0 before my time, so I don't know if there was a
>> specific reason.  Do we have any proprietary software that is using
>> BioCocoa?
>>
>> I'm a GNU fan myself, so I consider the LGPL to be good, but there is also
>> the BSD licenses which are very lenient.
>>
>> Let me know your thoughts.
>>
>> thanks
>> Scott
>>
>>
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