gnupic: GNU LIB for PIC
Subject:
Re: GNU LIB for PIC
From:
Antonio A Todo Bom ####@####.####
Date:
13 Jul 2002 19:21:21 -0000
Message-Id: <20020713155407.3bc402c0.antonio@projetos.etc.br>
Thank you Bas,
No dia (On:) Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:41:34 +0200 (CEST)
Bas Wijnen ####@####.#### escreveu: (wrote:)
> Hi,
>
> The idea sounds good, but if I were you, I would read some more about
> licensing, especially LGPL vs GPL:
> http://www.fsf.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html.
I will.
> The free software foundation explicitly states, that usually the GPL is better, also for
> libraries. The idea of LGPL is that the restriction the GPL poses, namely
> that no non-GPL'd code may link to it, is not in the interest of creating
> a world where everybody uses free software. This is true for libc, since
> people will use a different lib with such a license. If you build
> something original, they cannot since there is no other lib doing the same
> thing. In that case, the GPL is more approriate, because people may
> license their software as free (GPL) software in order to use the lib.
>
Ok, but the codes resulted by a main structure summed with these GNU-LIBs will not be a free firmware.
This occours because, oviously, my custumers will require the propriety of them.
But they will not can to demand that I don't use litle blocks of their codes in others projects. Because many applications use some codes in commom in spite of are diferent hardwares and objetives that are not concurrent in the market.
> This argument builds heavily on the idea that free software is Good and
> non-free software is Bad. If you are not convinced about that, please
> read the philosofy section on the free software foundation's page:
> http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/philosophy.html
Yes, I like it so much, I use only Linux and many GPL softwares. And the softwares that a made to litle applications are licensed GPL. But my job demands copyrights to our custumers over their codes that they paid.
Thank you for the note.
>
> Bye,
> Bas Wijnen
Regards,
Antonio Augusto Todo Bom Neto
LAX Eletronica e Telecomunicacoes Ltda
