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Precursors, Open Source, GPL and community?

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contingencyplan:
Real quick, in case I decide to go to bed later:

Recon, if you could, go ahead and read through the text of both licenses. They are available here:
GPL
LGPL

Also, read though this article by Richard Stallman on why libraries shouldn't use the LGPL.

This is an important issue, so I'd also like morgul, whitelynx, and Caenus to read through these articles. I'll post what my views are on the situation as a whole later... maybe in a few minutes, maybe not till later today.

(Why Caenus? Because he's head of the art dept, and while he's not directly involved with licensing the code, he's still got a stake in how it's licensed, since that will have an effect on how the artwork is licensed and distributed - yes, even if we copyright and restrict distribution of the artwork.)

whitelynx:

--- Quote from: the Precursors IRC channel ---<whitelynx> as far as GPL vs. LGPL, keep in mind that GNE effectively is a 'proprietary software developer' even though we tend to do a lot of our stuff with open-source licenses whenever possible
<whitelynx> our end goal is to end up selling something in some form, so that we can make money to eat and maybe not need other jobs on the side
<whitelynx> personally i'd still like to be able to use any of our code in our proprietary products if/when needed
<whitelynx> for Precursors itself the current model we have in mind is for the code to be freely available (under LGPL) and then license the content and the use of our servers to the end users
<whitelynx> if we licensed the precursors source under GPL instead of LGPL it would effectively prevent us from using _any_ of that code in _any_ proprietary project down the road, even if we kept the original code (the GPL stuff) open-sourced

--- End quote ---

As far as the Stallman article... I'm not sure I agree with forcing people to open-source their code to be able to use a library. I'm all for open-source development, but I'm not really pat of the GNU community, just the open source community. I'd rather not start a flame war over GNU's tactics, but personally I prefer LGPL simply because it allows more freedom for everyone involved.

Morgul:
I agree 100% with whitelynx. Personally, I see the LGPL as *the* license for freedom of use and code, not the gpl. Then again, that's me.

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