LXDE-Qt Licensing Polices
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2013 10:14 am
Hi, my name is Ryan and I'm new here.
I am very interested with the lightweightness offered by LXDE, and become more interested when hear about the merge with Razor-Qt as I am more prefered Qt over GTK+3.
Based on Razor-Qt licensing policies that I read, the author of Razor-Qt prefer LGPL over GPL.
How the merge of LXDE and Razor-Qt will affect the future of LXDE-Qt? Will it also prefer LGPL over GPL.
I suggest both developers should consider it earlier before everything get more complicated.
My opinion is to prefer LGPL over GPL, as it will help wider acceptance for LXDE-Qt especially from corporate sponsorship that may interested with LXDE or from non-Linux operating system that avoid GPL as possible (e.g. FreeBSD).
Just for information, there are many notable projects which switch their license from GPL to more relaxed license : VLC, GEGL, ApacheOpenOffice, SDL, PySide, etc.
Source:
https://github.com/Razor-qt/razor-qt/wi ... ing-policy
Regards,
RyanBram
I am very interested with the lightweightness offered by LXDE, and become more interested when hear about the merge with Razor-Qt as I am more prefered Qt over GTK+3.
Based on Razor-Qt licensing policies that I read, the author of Razor-Qt prefer LGPL over GPL.
How the merge of LXDE and Razor-Qt will affect the future of LXDE-Qt? Will it also prefer LGPL over GPL.
I suggest both developers should consider it earlier before everything get more complicated.
My opinion is to prefer LGPL over GPL, as it will help wider acceptance for LXDE-Qt especially from corporate sponsorship that may interested with LXDE or from non-Linux operating system that avoid GPL as possible (e.g. FreeBSD).
Just for information, there are many notable projects which switch their license from GPL to more relaxed license : VLC, GEGL, ApacheOpenOffice, SDL, PySide, etc.
Source:
https://github.com/Razor-qt/razor-qt/wi ... ing-policy
Regards,
RyanBram