<div dir="ltr">Sounds good to me. I was otherwise mostly lurking, although I will be happy to use the software… LGPL sounds right.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">--<br>Aaron Wolf<br><a href="http://wolftune.com/" target="_blank">wolftune.com</a></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Josh Berkus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josh@agliodbs.com" target="_blank">josh@agliodbs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
All:<br>
<br>
I wanted to post this based on a discussion in Bradley's presentation<br>
yesterday on the project here at SCALE.<br>
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I would like the *accounting library* to be licensed LGPL. My reason is<br>
that I want to write software which embeds the library which is under a<br>
different open source license, such as BSD.<br>
<br>
If the library is licensed AGPL, I believe that it will fail in its<br>
purpose as a library because it will be exclusively reserved to people<br>
who want to write AGPL applications, which however you cut it is a<br>
minority of developers. This is, after all, the reason why the LGPL<br>
exists; because more restrictive versions of GPL licenses are not<br>
compatible with library usage.<br>
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This is distinct from the eventual NPO accounting *application*, which<br>
should probably be AGPL because Blackbaud.<br>
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Bradley argued that "we can wait until someone comes to us and wants to<br>
build something to relicense". I believe that's a huge mistake; the<br>
majority of potential downstream application builders will dismiss the<br>
project without ever contacting us if the license is wrong.<br>
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--<br>
Josh Berkus<br>
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.<br>
<a href="http://pgexperts.com" target="_blank">http://pgexperts.com</a><br>
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