Hi, I see that you thought about it - I don't have a point on this decision.
I updated your project license. -- Sylvain On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 04:44:50PM +0100, Alexandre Becoulet wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:22:33AM +0100, Alexandre Becoulet wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to switch the qtlua project license to LGPLv3 to stick to Qt > > > and QtScript and license change. Thanks. > > > Do you know that you do not have to change your license? > > > > (Incidentally Qt did not switch to LGPLv3, but added LGPL v=2.1 in > > addition to GPLv3) > > Yes, I have read the http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html article > and > really thought about it. It is not an easy to take decision. What's me make > belive LGPL may be suited for my project is this part of the article: > > "The most common case is when a free library's features are readily available > for proprietary software through other alternative libraries. In that case, > the library cannot give free software any particular advantage, so it is > better to use the Lesser GPL for that library." > > The QtScript module is very close to QtLua and is now embedded as a core part > of Qt. It was not the case when I started to develop QtLua back in 2006. Even > if QtScript is internally produced by Nokia, it is not proprietary software > though. But QtScript is LGPL, making use of GPL of less interest to stand > against proprietary software is that particular Qt/scripting related software > area. That's why I doubt using GPL here still give any advantage to free > software or to the project.
