[TriLUG] I have some sticky licensing questions

[Peter Neilson]

On Fri, 05 Jul 2013 13:09:41 -0400, William Sutton <william at trilug.org>  
wrote:

> Ask your favorite IP lawyer?
>
> Me, personally, I'd release my code with a BSD license and let them do  
> whatever they want (or nothing at all) with it.

GPL denies the proprietary nature of code (and just about everything  
else). As much as I like rms, and even though I use emacs daily, I cannot  
see using the GPL for serious work. That it is viral just makes it worse.


>
> On Fri, 5 Jul 2013, Steve Litt wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm currently writing a standalone Python program that takes the output
>> of the eLyXer LyX to HTML converter, makes it suitable to make an ePub
>> ebook file, and produces the table of contents (toc.ncx).
>>
>> LyX is licensed GPL2 or later. eLyXer is licensed GPL3 or later. I
>> dislike GPL3 (too copyleft and restrictive for my taste), and I would
>> never allow a license based on some future license version. What if
>> somehow Larry Ellison buys the FSF someday?