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On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 23:17 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:

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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.

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> Thanks! I hope to.

>

> > The license header is

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

> it,

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

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

I like the apache 2.0 one because it's pretty and short and free of

lawyer. Alas, it's incompatible with (L)GPLv2... technically I could

make a similar header myself and use it, but there's no decent somewhat

canonical URI to refer to a BSD license I can find.
Of course we're all plenty used to just mentally skipping all the

boilerplate, but I like pretty things anyway :)
> > This made me notice something though: lv2.h itself is LGPL

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

> > inherently LGPL involved anyway.

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> 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.

We could attempt to contact everyone involved and get approval to switch

it and/or absolve themselves of copyright on it...
> > I am fully on the pro-GPL card-carrying FSF member team

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> 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.

The LGPL is wonderful. It lets you write a library that has the GPL

benefits (i.e. you can't take my code and proprietary-ize it without

sharing), while allowing proprietary projects to make use of the

library.
In a world free of selfish dickheads, public domain would be all we

need. In this one, the LGPL is nice :)
-dr
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