[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: A new liblouis?
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 08:49:12 -0500
Christian,
You have some good points. I've been trying to get people to acknowledge
that having liblouis in C makes it suitable for vastly more situations
than having it in Python or Java or whatever.
Starting from scratch would certainly be an enormous amount of work. If
we wanted to move away from the LGPL we would probably have to start
from schratc. That is probably impractical.
John
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:21:07PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > The LGPL has meant that liblouis is rejected for many applications,
> > such as those in the Apple store.
>
> I personally like the LGPL. It is a very good license. But we've had
> this debate before.
>
> Just on the point of the Apple store I want to say that I do not want
> any company dictate under which conditions I have to distribute the code
> I wrote. If liblouis cannot be distributed in the Apple store the it is
> Apples fault solely. The are free to fix it.
>
> I do the work and give it away for free. They make loads of money. Is it
> right that they get to dictate the conditions?
>
> Thanks
> Christian
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