License Committee Report for September 2009

[Will Robertson]

On 17/11/2009, at 11:26 AM, Bruce Perens wrote:

>> As the only example I'm familiar with, take the example of LuaTeX,  
>> in which the pdfTeX engine is opened up and grafted together with  
>> Lua. (My understanding of the way these embedded languages work  
>> only:) This is quite significantly more than just linking to a  
>> shared library -- i.e., it would be completely impossible for a  
>> user to simply relink a new version of Lua into LuaTeX.
> No, this is just engineering that you haven't yet been educated  
> about yet.
>> - If Falcon has BSD,  then Falcon can be used and abused without  
>> restriction by the proprietary software.
>> - If Falcon has LGPL, then the software must be unduly opened up.
>> - If Falcon has FPLL, then the software can stay closed but must  
>> reference Falcon.
> Not valid, for reasons given above.

Okay, thanks for the info.
Seems to me, then, that the LGPL should be acceptable for Falcon.
Please permit me to excuse myself from the conversation from now :)

-- Will