Z80 Emulation Engine

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Mon Apr 21 23:29:48 PDT 2014


On 22/04/14 07:57, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

> Yeah, I understand the license options essentially, but it's more than
> just the license text, there are license cultures that affect the
> decision, and people are borderline religious about this sort of
> thing.
> I mean, the GPL seems fine to me, but there are many people who see
> GPL and avoid it like the plague as a matter of superstition or
> something. I'd prefer to not discourage interest or contribution just
> because I wrote "GPL" near my code.
> Then people invented LGPL and in my experience, this makes some of
> them feel okay with it, and others still don't wanna go near it.
>
> What practical reasons are there to avoid GPL if your software is
> fundamentally open-source?
> Ideally, I'd like something like GPL, with the option that I can grant
> someone an exception to the license upon request.

If you want to use some library that is not GPL, or incompatible with 
GPL. Or the opposite. If someone wants to use your code, but not want to 
use GPL, but still an open source license. BSD, for example, is much 
more flexible in these cases.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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