[Xapian-devel] New bindings for Xapian

[Eduard Suica]

Thanks !

Updated the page. The project is stil under heavy development. I don't 
really care so much about the license ... I care only about deveopment ... 
so I've update it to LGPL (whis should be fine)

http://www.radgs.com/32-concept-application-server-license.html

Thanks,

Eduard
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olly Betts" <olly at survex.com>
To: "Eduard Suica" <eduard.suica at gmail.com>
Cc: <xapian-devel at lists.xapian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 6:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Xapian-devel] New bindings for Xapian


> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 08:01:49PM +0300, Eduard Suica wrote:
>> Hello. I've written the bindings for the Concept Application Server
>> for Xapian (and included into the default package).
>
> Hmm, some bad news I'm afraid - the licence of your software appears to
> be GPL-incompatible:
>
> http://www.radgs.com/32-concept-application-server-license.html
>
> Clauses 3 and 4 are straight from the old 4 clause BSD licence, but with
> the organisation name changed:
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/COPYRIGHT2.html#6
>
> And because of this clause, the FSF list this "Original BSD license" as
> GPL-incompatible:
>
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
>
> Also clause 8 prohibits charging for redistribution, which is also
> incompatible with the GPL.
>
> In fact clause 8 means this is licence isn't a "Free" licence (search
> for "sell copies" here: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/free-sw.html
> ) or an Open Source licence (point 1 here:
> http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd ).
>
> There may well be other incompatibilities - I gave up looking after
> spotting these.
>
> I'd strongly recommend picking an existing well known Free Software/Open
> Source licence rather than trying to put together your own.  Ideally one
> which is GPL compatible.
>
> You may lose a little control over your software compared to your
> current licence, but using a non-standard licence puts off a lot of users 
> (and
> Linux distros aren't going to package software with a non-free licence
> which loses you a lot more potential users).  Being GPL-incompatible
> also prevents a lot of reuse of existing code (like Xapian, in this
> case).
>
> Cheers,
>    Olly