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Adding the GPL to Fluid license? - requesting input

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Sheila Crossey Adding the GPL to Fluid license? - requesting input - All, We are considering adding the GPL to the Fluid licensing scheme and are seeking input on the ramifications this... Loading...

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cdcoppola Barnaby, I'm not sure I understand how the dual ECL 2.0 and LGPL 2.1 situation would work. As you clearly... Loading...

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jrnorman [Warning] rambling stream of consciousness post. I think substituting LGPL for BSD is a red herring based on a ... Loading...

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Joseph Hardin I think this is pretty much the same position I would advocate, John, and the analysis is fine, with a few tweaks... Loading...

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colinbdclark Hi all, A lot of passion and confusion inevitably seems to arise where the GPL is concerned, so I particularly... Loading...

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cdcoppola This all makes good sense to me John & Joseph. I'm interested in better understanding the motivations but at present... Loading...

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Mark J. Norton This sounds like an attempt to please all of the people all of the time. The fact is there are some very different... Loading...

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lennard Many of my clients specifically ask me to avoid GPL, some of that set of clients will accept an LGPL if no other... Loading...

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Mara Hancock This is very interesting. I agree with Mark that this seems like an attempt to avoid the inevitable conflict between... Loading...

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lennard MoodleRooms source code is open and available. They also provide services such as corporate hosting. It is not that... Loading...

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Mark J. Norton I had a look at Moodlerooms Terms of Service. Had trouble accessing the site, so used Google... Loading...

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lennard So long as the customizations are also open and available there shouldn't be any problems. GPL does not require that... Loading...

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lennard Just to further clarify the difference between GPL and LGPL. LGPL does using the Lesser GPL permits use of the... Loading...

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cdcoppola But right now there are only two different ways to license Fluid IP: ECL, or BSD. Both are compatible. The same would... Loading...

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cdcoppola LOL! You're right. The same problem exists either way... I just have a slanted view of the world because the projects... Loading...

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Richard Schwerdtfeger Rich Schwerdtfeger Distinguished Engineer, SWG Accessibility Architect/Strategist Chair, IBM Accessibility... Loading...

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cdcoppola Wow, this has sparked quite a conversation. I'd be a pretty strong -1 on this. The key reason is that it's almost... Loading...

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Joseph Hardin What looks like thin ice here, Mark? There are companies perfectly willing to work in the GPL world. They skate along... Loading...

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Sheila Crossey I think Moodle may be an example of a group that would be more open to adopting (i.e. integrating) Fluid if it were... Loading...

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Mark J. Norton I wonder how the Moodle community justifies the use of Moodle in commercial offers, such as MoodleRooms? Perhaps GPL... Loading...

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lennard It is possible to have a commercial offering and still use GPL... all the code has to comply with the license though. ... Loading...

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smkeesle Sheila Crossey wrote: > All, > We are considering adding the GPL to the Fluid licensing scheme and > are seeking... Loading...

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Sheila Crossey Sean, I think you have a good point. I'm not sure it would allay their concerns unless perhaps there is some... Loading...

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smkeesle Yeah, the interest in copyleft is not in what *I* can do with the Fluid code after I get from you, its what someone... Loading...