[PD-dev] flext license

[guenter geiger]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Thomas Grill wrote:
> >  > No, Krzysztof said he doesn't like the idea of putting cyclone under
> >  > GPL. Generally, I think that we can change the license for the
> externals,
> >  > if that is wanted, and put them under the same license as pd.
> >  > What do you think ?
>
> Hmmm, i'm not sure.
> - I would like to emphasize the non-commercial aspect, so maybe charge a fee
> for the unlikely case of a commercial applications.

This outrules LGPL, because commercial applications are explicitely
allowed to link against the library, without fee.

> - If someone makes changes/improvements to the code this should have to be a
> contribution to the public code base, so that others can profit from it.

Use the GPL then. You can still charge a fee by double licensing.

GPL might not be sufficient though for forcing people to contribute to
the code base.

Greetings,

Guenter