Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] The beginnings of an ladcca manual
From: Bob Ham (node_AT_users.sourceforge.net)
Date: Tue Dec 10 2002 - 20:14:15 EET
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:03:14PM +0000, Nathaniel Virgo wrote:
> It's a really, really good idea and I hope it comes into widespread use
> eventually. I just have one comment really: IMHO this should definitely be
> LGPL not GPL. I don't think there's any reason to exclude non-GPL clients
> from linking to the library, and I think that doing so would ultimately have
> adverse effects.
>
> LGPL would still protect your code in that any alterations to ladcca itself
> would still have to be released under LGPL - it just means that if commercial
> companies (or people with inclinations toward non-GPL open source licences)
> were ever to start taking an interest in linux audio, their apps would be
> able to link to it, and thus interact seamlessly with the pre-existing Free
> ones.
Aye, I'm well aware of what the LGPL would mean. That's why I released it
under the GPL :) I'm not sure about this tho. I don't know that there's
any need for it to be LGPL, and certainly not for the moment. IMHO, better
to be safe than sorry where freedom is concerned.
Bob
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