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XSLT Standard Library License
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- Subject: [xsl] XSLT Standard Library License
- From: Steve Ball <Steve dot Ball at zveno dot com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 22:18:53 +1000
- Organization: Zveno Pty Ltd
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As a follow-up to my announcement about the XSLT Standard Library,
I'd like to start a (hopefully brief) discussion about the choice
of license. I hope my choice of license is as least contentious
as possible.
>From my point-of-view it came down to two options: LGPL or MIT/Berkeley.
GPL is out because most commercial concerns won't touch GPL'd
code due to its viral nature.
Although MIT/Berkeley style licenses are good from the commercial
standpoint (they're basically "anything goes, just don't blame me
when it goes wrong"), I know that some folks are not keen on
contributing
code under such a license.
So the choice of LGPL I believe represents a middle ground:
commercial use is OK, but changes to the library itself have to be
fed back to the project.
Does anyone have any dissenting thoughts on this?
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