| From: | Kenneth Downs <ken(at)secdat(dot)com> |
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| To: | Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Announce: GPL Framework centered on Postgres |
| Date: | 2006-05-18 10:52:51 |
| Message-ID: | 446C5203.3080608@secdat.com |
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Florian Weimer wrote:
>* Joshua D. Drake:
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>>>>Sounds great! But why GPL? Are you looking to sell licenses?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>GPL is to spread it as far and wide as possible as fast as possible.
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>>>
>>LGPL?
>>
>>My concern would be, I can't use this toolkit for a closed source
>>application if it is GPL.
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>Closed source? It's a PHP framework. 8-)
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>
LOL. I was thinking something of the same thing. But as you point out...
>Anyway, for a web application, the GPL is usually *less* restrictive
>than various BSD license variants because you do not need to mention
>the software in the end user documentation.
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>
The paradox is that web is a more closed environment. The user need
never download and install the source.
Which has me thinking of the idea of requiring a copyright notice in the
HTML files sent to the browser, or some type of "powered by" notice. I
will add that to the list of ponderables along with LGPL.
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