[Solar-talk] From LGPL to New BSD?

[Paul M Jones]

On May 19, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Travis Swicegood wrote:

> Out of curiosity, what would be the motivation and benefit to a  
> switch?

Initial motivation is a desire to incorporate code (with attribution  
of course) from other BSD-licensed projects.  There are bits of Zend  
Framework, ezComponents, and Matthew Weier O'Phinney's "Phly"  
codebase that are too good to ignore; they are all BSD-licensed.   
Matching licenses helps me to avoid asking these guys to re-license  
stuff to Solar.

Benefit is, as others have said, that BSD is a no-brainer.  There's  
less motivation to contribute back to the original Solar codebase,  
but I think it will make Solar more palatable to commercial types  
(it's "non-viral" as they say, even though I dislike that  
terminology).  Similarly, others have noted that people often use  
LGPL code as if it were BSD anyway, retaining changes that are  
internal to their organization (i.e., not distributed).

Hope this helps to explain my desire to change licenses.



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