Re: EEL vs. GAL

[John Heard <John Heard sun com>]

Hi Miguel,

Thanks for the response. Much appreciated.
I had looked up the README as per you earlier post on this subject, but it does not state
this apart from the points that GAL is unstable and maintained completely by the
respective maintainers, then just states it is licensed under the GPL. Maybe you might
wish to elucidate further in the README.

Thanks again
Rgds
John

(PS. It seems like I can no-longer post to gnome-hackers directly, which I thought you set
up a while back.)

Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> > What is the rationale for using GPL versus LGPL. I have always considered that GNOME
> > followed a plan to use LGPL for libraries and runtime services. I guess you do not
> > see GAL becoming a part of the GNOME platform.
>
> I think the README mentions this.  Pieces of GAL came from Gnumeric,
> Evolution and they were developed originally under the GPL.  So they
> would need to be relicensed.
>
> Relicensing is an option we have discussed, and as we move pieces of
> Gal into other stable places (glib, gtk+, gnome-libs, bonobo) they
> would be relicensed accordingly.  Again, those pieces were developed
> and contributed to as GPL pieces originally, and they are now just put
> into a library so other apps can reuse it.
>
> Miguel.