From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 4 18:18:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8AC137B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 179C943EC5 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:18:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from temperanza@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 18158 invoked by uid 417); 5 Jan 2003 02:18:03 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 5 Jan 2003 02:18:03 -0000 Received: from softhome.net ([63.194.84.111]) (AUTH: PLAIN temperanza@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Sat, 04 Jan 2003 19:18:03 -0700 Message-ID: <3E179649.50707@softhome.net> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 18:19:53 -0800 From: tempy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Another license possibility References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've been following the debate here, and wondered- what would you think of a modified GPL of sorts that is "dormantly viral" and only spreads with the functions placed under it? This would be functionally similar to the LGPL, except that it's a bit freer about how the code can be linked to. For instance, I write coolstuff.c under this license. MegaSoft modifies it for use in their propietary software. If they release their modified form, the rest of their source code can stay both legal and secret. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message