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  3. February 2002

Re: License is a non-issue?

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice wrote:
>
> > Would it be possible to get agreement from everyone to switch to the
> > above licensing scheme? I'd be willing to mod the RPM .spec file so that
> > libtn5250 and tn5250 packages are generated separately, if needed.
>
> I say just go for the LGPL on the whole thing, anyway.  The code which we
> should be protecting with the GPL is a _very_ small portion, easily rewritten
> from scratch by anyone who doesn't like the GPL, and I don't think it's worth
> the headache of having multiple licenses.

Can you use the LGPL for non-libraries?  The word "library" seems to be
used throughout the text of the license.

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