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Re: [udig-devel] LGPL and commercial plugins
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euan crawford wrote:
Can I build a commercial (non-LGPL) plugin for uDig? The plugin would
interact with the compiled uDig libraries but not involve any changes
to the core uDig code.
Of course! That is (one of) the big ideas of choosing the LGPL license.
To help set people up we do offer use of our version control and several
projects are making use of it. There are also several closed source
projects "powered by" uDig both at refractions and around the world.
If you do want to make use of a GPL library, you can also make a GPL
plugin with out effect the uDig application.
I know that lawyers could steer this either way so I'd appreciate any
comments/advice.
One good resource is the JBoss write up of why they chose LGPL for their
work.
- http://www.jboss.org/company/licensing
In short LGPL is considered business friendly (and uDig is friendly
after all) which is one reason we can host our bug tracking on codehaus
with their strict policies on such matter.
All the best, and if there is any way we can be of assistence let us know.
Jody
yours
Euan Crawford
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