LGPL? (was: java bindings)

[Jari Turkia]

Pawel Kot wrote:
> > and btw: no plans to release the gnokii library under a more "liberal"
> > license like lgpl?
> gnokii is 11 years old it is impossible to find them all. Depending on
> how many changes will appear in the development branch (ie. if it will
> be a rewrite) we may change licensing there.
I'll put political issues (puristic, "must be free!") and practical 
issues (impossible to get permission from everybody) aside.

Pro GPL:
- being a small project with limited resources, we'd really like to have 
as much people (companies) to get involved and share their work
- you can take libgnokii and do as you wish, you just don't get to 
distribute, or if you do, you need to provide source
- make sure interested parties (KDE, opensync, etc.) stay interested

Pro LGPL:
- remove GPL "taint", one can integrate libgnokii into any application 
and pretty much do as they wish
- may raise interest on commercial companies

My opinion: it is not time for Gnokii to go LGPL yet.

Btw. value of the Gnokii software according to 
http://www.ohloh.net/projects/766 is $1,371,399 :-)

Regards,
Jari Turkia