[tdsoc] Re: license of our projects

  • From: Alessio Parzian <parzio90@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tdsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 17:13:47 +0100

I had a glance to the possible licences too. I completely agree with
@Davide. In my opinion LGPL fits best in this case, it allows us to find
the right balance.

Alessio


On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Massimiliano Max Sala <
maxsalacodes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Im in favour of lgpl but this is a personal opinion, Im not speaking ex
> cathedra
>
> Max
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 03/mar/2013, at 10:16, Davide Kirchner <davide.kirchner@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > If those are the requirements, then Apache2 is the most appropriate, but
> I find LGPL a good compromise between permissive and copyleft licences.
> >
> > Note that, according to Apache2 licence, we must provide a NOTICE file
> in order to force attribuition of our work in derivative works.
> >
> >
> > Davide
> >
> >
> >> ________________________________
> >> Da: Lorenzo Nicolodi <lorenzo.nicolodi@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> A: tdsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Inviato: Sabato 2 Marzo 2013 21:32
> >> Oggetto: [tdsoc] Re: license of our projects
> >>
> >>
> >> thanks federico.
> >>
> >> so apache2 seems more appropriate.... any other thought from you guys?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Federico "fox" Scrinzi <fox91@xxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On sab, 2013-03-02 at 13:27 +0100, Lorenzo Nicolodi wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> the last step we need to accomplish is to decide which type of
> >>>> opensource license our projects will use. we need something which
> >>>> allows
> >>>> everyone to use / modify our code for both free and commercial
> >>>> open/closed source projects, if and only if they indicate us as the
> >>>> source of the work.
> >>>
> >>> GPL and LGPL are not compliant with your requirements. If the software
> >>> is modified and you use such licenses the third party must release the
> >>> modifed version under the same license.
> >>> So I think that the Apache license fits best (or BSD, MIT, ecc..).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> f.
> >>>
> >>>   "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache
> >>>    invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors."
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Lorenzo Nicolodi
> >
>
>


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