[Geany-devel] Third party plugin publish and third party library bundle problem

[Frank Lanitz]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:59:12 +0200
Thomas Martitz <thomas.martitz at student.htw-berlin.de> wrote:

> Am 16.07.2012 16:58, schrieb Thomas Martitz:
> > Am 16.07.2012 16:41, schrieb Hong Xu:
> >> On 2012/7/15 20:28, Frank Lanitz wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:56:32 +1000
> >>> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> BTW you mentioned a third party library, but you didn't say what
> >>>> library.  It would of course have to have a suitable license to
> >>>> allow it to be included.
> >>>
> >>> Yes. I missed that too. Most plugins are GPL2+ so it needs to be
> >>> also GPL2+... BSD should also be fine in most cases. But LGPL
> >>> could be problematic.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> I prefer Simplified BSD License for this plugin. What do you mean
> >> it should be fine for "most" cases? Could you explain more?
> >
> > The 2-clause BSD is always fun. As is LGPLv2+.
> 
> s/fun/fine/ :)

Rethinking about ..... well, you might are correct. In terms of
distribution as we most likely will do, LPGL should also be fine.
Sorry -  my fault. 
In terms of BSD I'm thinking about some special parts e.g. calling
author's names inside credits I saw in past. But should not be
apply able on our case.... 

Cheers, 
Frank

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