Re: [fpc-pascal] Name for our license

2009-06-22 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op zaterdag 20-06-2009 om 16:25 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Jonas Maebe: > On 20 Jun 2009, at 16:15, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > > Modified LGPL just isn't good enought, because it's not unique enough. > > Modified in which way? By who? > > > > I would like to have a name for our lice

Re: [fpc-pascal] Name for our license

2009-06-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Marco van de Voort wrote: No it does not, I think. It just says that the same process to construct LGPL3 from GPL3 is made as was to make LGPL2 from GPL2. Ah yes, I see what you mean. I read it to quickly and misunderstood the overall meaning. My bad. :-( Regards, - Graeme - __

Re: [fpc-pascal] Name for our license

2009-06-21 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 21 Jun 2009, at 19:14, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I to honest I do not understand the ins and outs of the various licenses, but I read the following on the wikipedia site. The the following (below) mean that LGPL v3 license is similar to the "modified LGPL v2" that FPC and Lazarus use? I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Name for our license

2009-06-21 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > Library from Free Pascal" or "The same license as the Lazarus > > Component Library". > > I to honest I do not understand the ins and outs of the various licenses, > but I read the following on the wikipedia site. The the following (below) > mea

Re: [fpc-pascal] Name for our license

2009-06-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: ackward need to use expressions like "the same license as the Runtime Library from Free Pascal" or "The same license as the Lazarus Component Library". I to honest I do not understand the ins and outs of the various licenses, but I read the following on the w

Re: [fpc-pascal] Name for our license

2009-06-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Jonas Maebe wrote: * Free Pascal LGPL --> shortened to FPLGPL I think that would be a bad name, because a) there is nothing specific to the FPC project about this license Felipe, I like the idea, but I have to agree with Jonas. I work on a few projects and some use the "modified lgpl" licen

Re: [fpc-pascal] Name for our license

2009-06-20 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
* Free Pascal LGPL --> shortened to FPLGPL I don't like acronyms, especially if they are more than 3 letters long. Why not simply name it "Free Pascal Licence"? Jürgen Hestermann. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://li

Re: [fpc-pascal] Name for our license

2009-06-20 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said: > I think that would be a bad name, because > a) there is nothing specific to the FPC project about this license > b) many other projects also use this form of licensing (just google > for "lgpl static linking exception" without the quotes) > > Simply "

Re: [fpc-pascal] Name for our license

2009-06-20 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 20 Jun 2009, at 16:15, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: Modified LGPL just isn't good enought, because it's not unique enough. Modified in which way? By who? I would like to have a name for our license, what do you think? I suggest: * Free Pascal LGPL --> shortened to FPLGPL I think