[delphizip] license concerns

  • From: Eric.Engler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: delphizip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 10:02:50 -0500

I was thinking we should adopt a flexible license for Delphi Zip. We haven't
had any kind of formal license before, and sometimes companies have
expressed their concern about this. 

Once a company told me they'd need a formal license agreement before they
could use Delphi Zip. They had their legal people draft something up, and I
signed it.

To head off this type of concern in the future, we should include a license
policy with our distribution archive.

These are the most popular open source licenses now:
MPL - Mozilla Public License
GPL - GNU Public License
LGPL - Lesser GNU Pulic License
BSD - Berekley license (they have an open source version of unix)

The LGPL allows people to use a common library (like Delphi Zip), and they
can include their own closed-source code, and they can sell their product
without paying royalties.

It seems to me like LGPL would be the best fit for what we are doing. Does
anyone have comments?

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html

Eric

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