Re: New icns loading code

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi Matt,

switching to LGPL would be great. For now version 3 is not perfectly
usable for GNUstep applications. Some of the more important GNUstep
applications are still on GPL2 and this is not compatible with LGPL3.
Only for that reason does GNUstep still use LGPL2 or later.
If you could use "LGPL2 or later" as well, we would have a perfect fit here.

Cheers
Fred

PS: Thank you for your great library!


Gregory John Casamento wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> It's good to hear from you! :)   Yes, I think we would like to discuss
> this.
> 
> Later, GC
> Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc
> # GNUstep Chief Maintainer
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mathew Eis <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 10:00:19 PM
> Subject: Re: New icns loading code
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just came across your message on the list... I am the primary
> developer of the libicns code, and also the projects current
> maintainer.
> 
> I would hate for you to have to re-do so much work with the icns loading.
> 
> Would it help if we changed the library's licensing to the LGPLv3?
> 
> Please CC me in your reply, I am not part of the GnuStep Dev list.
> 
> -Mathew Eis
> 
> -snip-
>> Why not just use libicns?
>> It is published with the GPL 2 licence, which may not be suitable for
> some projects using GNUstep.
> -/snip-