Thanks for all the comments on the licensing. I understand GPL has heavy restrictions on how the code is used, and I should have put more details in the last paragraph of my post: I'm actually fairly flexible on giving custom license (say BSD or LGPL) to project owners who contact me. However, depending on the case, I would ask for no compensation (say for a freeware or small shareware) or some reasonable compensation (for a *real* commercial product).
Note that there are currently 2 commercial projects using parts of PolKit. - Pierre-Olivier On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas <devli...@shadowlab.org>wrote: > > Le 30 oct. 2009 à 17:25, Jens Alfke a écrit : > > > >> On Oct 29, 2009, at 6:25 AM, Pierre-Olivier Latour wrote: >> >> The entire project is available open-source under GPLv3 license hosted on >>> Google Code. If you are interested in using PolKit in a non-open-source >>> project and need a commercial license, please contact me. >>> >> >> This sounds like great code, but the license is somewhat unfortunate since >> it's incompatible with the BSD license used by most open-source Mac code. As >> it stands, your library couldn't be used by open-source Mac apps (or >> libraries) that use a non-GPL license. >> > > > And if you find MIT or BSD not restrictive enough, choose at least LGPL, so > people will be able to dynamically link on the framework in other non GPLv3 > products. > > -- Jean-Daniel > > > > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
