License Committee Report for September 2009

[Will Robertson]

Hi,

On 16/11/2009, at 4:21 AM, Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:

> Finally, we're integrating Falcon into third party products which  
> are, btw,
> not fully GPL compatible, as Titanium appdeveloper, Ogre 3d engine  
> and several
> commercial products.

I'm a novice in the details of all of these licensing matters, but  
your original FPLL to me sounded rather similar to the LGPL, with some  
odd restrictions such as:

> In example, if You use Falcon to drive a web site, and You don't  
> want Your site visitors to ever see Your scripts, You have to put  
> somewhere a reading like "Powered with Falcon".

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious though; can you outline why the  
LGPL doesn't suit your needs?

Regardless, if you're creating an all new FPLL then it's probably  
worth waiting for that one rather than discussing the old.

-- Will