License Committee Report for September 2009

[Bruce Perens]

Giancarlo Niccolai wrote:
> We want this bundle to be distributable under the commercial entity most favored choice.
> If the language was LGPL, it CANNOT distribute the whole bundle under another 
> license. It has to distribute the engine as LGPL, and then it can use it from 
> a licensed-whatsoever closed source software.
And your license goes away entirely, right? In which case he doesn't 
have to do what you say. The truth is that your license doesn't really 
go away. It's just that the commercial user doesn't have to convey a 
copy of your license with the work.
> Scary enough to keep any commercial entity at bay and away.
>   
The last time I checked, GNOME was distributed with commercial Unix 
distributions as well as Linux. One of my customers is putting it in car 
dashboards.

    Thanks

    Bruce