Re: [Seqan-dev] STELLAR LGPL license

[Hannes Hauswedell <hannes.hauswedell@fu-berlin.de>]

[note that this is not legal advice]

Am Sonntag, 17. März 2019, 18:24:00 CET schrieb Seqan Fan:
> A lot of Seqan applications use BSD style licenses. That is very good!
>  
> Some of the apps use more restrictive licenses such as GPL and LGPL. That
> makes the modern web apps, which are delivered to the browsers, thus deemed
> to be distributed, almost impossible to comply with the licenses without
> disclosing your entire website.

I am not sure what you are referring to here. Distributing source code or 
binaries VIA a website does not make your web site a derivative of the 
application and thus does not influence your choice of license.

What are you referring to with "web app"? Are you compiling Stellar into 
Javascript or another interpreted language? In that case, still, the LGPL only 
covers changes made immediately to the Stellar's code or code derived from it, 
not some framework you use around it.
I don't see how it is "impossible to comply with this", but as Knut Reinert 
mentioned, we are evaluating whether we can change the license.

> 
> For example, STELLAR is interesting, but it uses LGPL. Would you please
> license it with BSD style licenses? 

Please not that the BSD license also requires you to give attribution in your 
copyright notices and possibly in the documentation. And also, please cite our 
work in case you publish derived work in academic contexts.

Thanks,
-- 
Hannes Hauswedell

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Freie Universität Berlin / Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics

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