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On 25 Feb 2011 18:34, "David Robillard"  wrote:

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> I switched Serd and Sord to 2-clause BSD. Enjoy.

Thanks! I hope to.
> The license header is

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> bigger and uglier and has a bunch of lawyer boiler-plate yelling in it,

> which I am not aesthetically please with at all... :)

I've always rather liked the look of the BSD boilerplate.
> This made me notice something though: lv2.h itself is LGPL (inherited

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> from ladspa.h). So, if you're implementing an LV2 host there's

> inherently LGPL involved anyway.

For me that's OK, an LV2 implementation would be of rather different purpose

from a general store implementation.  Though I can imagine others finding it

difficult -- I've noticed some confusion about what exactly the LGPL means

for use of the LADSPA header in the past.
> I am fully on the pro-GPL card-carrying FSF member team
I can see many cases for GPL libraries and BSD libraries, but I've not so

often been convinced by the use of the LGPL.
Chris
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On 25 Feb 2011 18:34, "David Robillard" <d@drobilla.net> wrote:

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> I switched Serd and Sord to 2-clause BSD. Enjoy.

Thanks! I hope to.

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> The license header is

> bigger and uglier and has a bunch of lawyer boiler-plate yelling in it=

,

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> which I am not aesthetically please with at all... :)

I've always rather liked the look of the BSD boilerplate.

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> This made me notice something though: lv2.h itself is LGPL (inherit=

ed

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> from ladspa.h). So, if you're implementing an LV2 host there's=

> inherently LGPL involved anyway.

For me that's OK, an LV2 implementation would be of rather different=

 purpose from a general store implementation.=A0 Though I can imagine other=

s finding it difficult -- I've noticed some confusion about what exactl=

y the LGPL means for use of the LADSPA header in the past.
> I am fully on the pro-GPL card-carrying FSF member team

I can see many cases for GPL libraries and BSD libraries, but I've n=

ot so often been convinced by the use of the LGPL.

Chris
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