[Fedora-legal-list] *GPL ... approaching 1990s?

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Mon Feb 27 13:42:07 UTC 2012


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 07:08:34AM +0100, Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 27.2.2012 01:29, Richard Fontana wrote:
> >It may call into question the choice of the LGPL to begin with
> >though. (That may not be an unreasonable guideline: for a new
> >project, never use a license that is lengthier than the code you
> >would be placing under it.)
> 
> Is this anti-Lesser GPL (pro pure-GPL) rant, or do you mean that
> authors should use for shorter things
> MIT/BSD/some-other-short-license?

It's not specific to LGPL, but more a comment on where relatively
simpler licensing may be more appropriate.

 - RF




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