[ghemical-devel] should libghemical-2.0 be LGPL:d?

[Jean Bréfort]

Le mardi 18 octobre 2005 à 11:07 +0300, Tommi Hassinen a écrit :
> Hello all,
> 
> recently I was informed that libghemical has been ported to Windows 
> platform, as a DLL:
> 
>  	http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/research/winlibghemical/
> 
> At least yet I have not managed to port the ghemical app itself (the 
> current GTK2 versions) to Windows, even though I tried (at summer) to 
> compile gtk+-2.0 in Windows using cygwin/mingw32.
> 
> But now I have started to think about libghemical and it's usability as a 
> part of other programs ; I think that once it's role is still a bit more 
> clarified, and it's interface to client applications (ghemical + others 
> later) cleaned up, I would be ready to change the license from GPL to 
> LGPL.
> 
> What I still want to do before changes in license, is to better define the 
> interface to libghemical ; how a client application should use it. This is 
> an important matter, because it defines what is normal use of a library 
> and what is an extension of a library. It is good to make these things 
> more clear (regardless of any licensing questions).
> 
> Do you have experience, comments, etc about LGPL?

LGPL is good, but you can also read the following link:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

Cheers,
Jean