Re: libseed-list Seed Licensing

[Tim Horton <hortont424 gmail com>]

Would be fine with me; I think Robb and Matt are the other primary people you'll need, plus the handful who have contributed patches since then; look through Git and bug everyone, because some are likely not on here.

I'll make sure those two get back to you ASAP.

Tim@Vera

On Mar 4, 2011, at 3:41, "Alan Knowles" <alan akbkhome com> wrote:

> I'm fine with my (albeit small) contributions being re-licenced under LGPL2+
> 
> I'm guessing you need agreement by the original authors + contributors as far as possible.
> 
> Regards
> Alan
> 
> --- On 04/Mar/2011, Alexandre Mazari wrote: 
>> Hello Seeders,
>> 
>> As part of the Webkit Gtk port, we are currently investigating adding an
>> API to expose a GObject within a Webframe js context.
>> 
>> Seed already has most of the plumbing required to expose GIR types and
>> instances in a JSCore engine so there might be a good opportunity to
>> share this code with your agreement.
>> 
>> Though, this would expose a licensing issue. Indeed, Seed sources can
>> only be redistributed in a codebase licensed under the LGPL3+ where
>> webkit-gtk is licensed under LGPL2+. FSF advisors confirmed that
>> redistributing some Seed-derived code within webkit-gtk would be a
>> breach of Seed licensing terms.
>> 
>> The obvious solution would be that Seed switches to a LGPL 2+ licence
>> model. Of course, this would requires an agreement from you guys (and
>> girls).
>> 
>> Does such a request seem reasonable to you ?
>> 
>> Thanks for considering this and all your great work.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> -- 
>> Alexandre Mazari <amazari igalia com>
>> 
>> 
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