On 06/11/2012 04:46 PM, Sean Bruno wrote:
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 13:03 -0700, Laine Stump wrote:
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> All copyrights in netcf must be compatible with the LGPL version 2.1
> (see the file COPYING). This copyright isn't compatible with the LGPL,
> and will need to change before the code can be committed.
>
>
>
This is your project and we'll comply with whatever in the licenses.
Nobody wants to get into a "free software license" argument on the
internet! :-)
As a note however, I *thought* I was using a compatible BSD license here
(3 clause) and not the incompatible (advertising clause) version.
Truthfully, I'm not an expert, so you may well be correct. danpb, you
know more about this - what's the correct answer?