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Re: Kawa (re-)licensing
- From: Bruce Lewis <brlewis at ALUM dot MIT dot EDU>
- To: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Cc: kawa at sourceware dot org
- Date: 15 Nov 2005 10:00:55 -0500
- Subject: Re: Kawa (re-)licensing
- References: <43704CF1.4060507@bothner.com>
Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:
> Various people have asked about the current license of Kawa.
> Advantages of the current license include:
[...]
> - Provides a motivation for companies to negotiate a commercial
> license, which provides funding for Kawa.
I'm not sure I understand this. Could you give a fictitious example of a
company that would want to negotiate a commercial license because of the
current license, but wouldn't want to negotiate a commercial license if
it were LGPLed?