It's asking them to use GPL, which is even more restrictive, but a better move for general open source.
LGPL is what I feel like the best for this library, as I want a copyleft license. Shuhao On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Andrey V. Martyanov <reald...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Justin, > > Sorry for the late response, I didn't see your message! In fact, I know > the differences between the two. But, what is the profit of using it? Why > don't just use BSD, for example, like many open source projects do. The > biggest minus of LGPL is that many people think that it's the same as GPL > and have problems understanding it. Even your think that I don't know the > difference! :) Why? Because, it's a common practice. A lot of people really > don't know the difference. That's why I said before that (L)GPL is > overcomplicated. If you open the LGPL main page [1], first thing you will > see is "Why you shouldn't use the Lesser GPL for your next library". Is it > normal? It confuses people. There are a lot of profit in pulling back the > changes you've made - a lot of people see it, fix it, comment it, improve > it and so on. Why the license forces me to to that? It shouldn't. > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html > > Best regards, > Andrey Martyanov > > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Justin Sheehy <jus...@basho.com> wrote: > >> Hi, Andrey. >> >> On Mar 1, 2012, at 10:18 PM, "Andrey V. Martyanov" <reald...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> > Sorry for GPL, it's a typo. I just don't like GPL-based licenses, >> including LGPL. I think it's overcomplicated. >> >> You are of course free to dislike anything you wish, but it is worth >> mentioning that GPL and LGPL are very different licenses; the LGPL is >> missing infectious aspects of the GPL. >> >> There are many projects which could not use GPL code compatibly with >> their preferred license but which can safely use LGPL code. >> >> Justin >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > >
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