Hi,
It seems as if my mailer had some problems while sending the first version of this mail. Iīll try it again.
I think we should now definitely decide on the license of our libraries, as
long as we donīt have very much code and very many people involved.
It mainly has to contain these items:
* Software may be linked against it (statically or dynamically) without restrictions
* The library itself has to be disributed freely and people shipping it should at least include a note
about where the most up-to-date version (including source) can be found
* Any modifications to the library code automatically fall under the same license
I attached tha Artistic license and Adrianīs Graphics license (everyone here
should have access to some LGPL copy).
So which of these or what other license do you prefer for or libraries?
Cu
Christian
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