Am Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:30:50 +0000 schrieb Anton Ertl:
> You write that you want to copyleft the library. If you want developers
> of proprietary programs to be able to INCLUDE your library and
> distribute their program, you either need to provide a standard API (or
> at least one that is also implemented by a non-copylefted library), or
> you need to add an exception to the license that allows that.
> Similarly, if you want them to be able to distribute binaries containing
> your library without having to comply with copyleft requirements, you
> have to add an exception to the library that allows that. If your
> exceptions are very liberal, the effect will be very similar to using a
> non-copyleft license, so you might make things simpler by just using a
> non-copyleft license from the start.
CDDL is a "weak" copyleft license (even the FSF says so), and would allow
such a scenario without "exceptions" or other special cases.
Regards,
Patrick Georgi
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