On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:50:04AM -0400, Ernesto Bascon wrote:
> Hi everybody:
>
> I do not want to start a flamewar about licensing and hope some
> concrete answers to my questions (maybe I seem aggressive, I am not at
> all :) ).
>
> I want to develop an OpenBSD specific set of libraries, implementing
> it on C++ and using the LGPL or the Classpath::License licenses for my
> code (both are almost identical). Well, I will be the initial owner of
> my code and I can do (again, initially) anything with it, but:
>
> 1. Is there some policy on OpenBSD encouraging or discouraging the use
> of C++ for OpenBSD specific applications? (several opensource projects
> prefer C over any language and discourage using C++; is that the case
> for OpenBSD?)
>
> 2. OpenBSD is known as a very anti-GPL project... so, what would be
> the OpenBSD position on front of some LGPL code implemented
> specifically for OpenBSD?
If you ever want OpenBSD to include your code, use BSD/C, or perhaps
BSD/Perl. Otherwise, do whatever you like.
Joachim
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