[kwlug-disc] Switch license or keep it the same?

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On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 4:44 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 4:33 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc
> <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
> >
> > Licenses are so weird.
>
> Indeed ...
>
> > In the C/C++ context, I thought that linking to a GPLed library means
> > your code has to be GPL as well. That is (I thought) why the LGPL
> > exists -- so that a program that is not GPLed can link to a library
> > that is without having to be GPL itself.
>
> The FSF insists on interpreting the GPL as 'running in the same process
> space'.
> Which means that if you link to a library, that library has to be GPL
> or LGPL (which
> they reluctantly introduced for such cases).
>
> This comes from the days where everything was .a (statically linked)
> and .so (dynamically
> linked) was fairly new, and they realized that vendors would lock
> crucial parts in .so
> libraries, so they interpreted things as : "run in the same process space".
>
> The official way around that is interprocess communication between a
> GPL process and
> a non-GPL one.
>
> I ran into that interpretation with Drupal modules, although a) they are
> written
> in a language that is not compiled (i.e. source required to install
> and run them),
> and b) they are extensions, and not essential for Drupal itself to run.
>
> I tried to explain all that to them. They still insisted that
> everything should be GPL,
> which points to a dogmatic stance rather than a technical or rational
> explanation.
>
> Wordpress still allows non-GPL extensions, though it runs PHP the same
> as Drupal.
>
> Meanwhile, things changed within the Drupal project, so it became a moot
> point.
>
> > When I use a GPLed module in Python it is different?
>
> Judging from their stance on PHP, yes, Python would be the same (in
> FSF's stance,
> not a pragmatic one).
>
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