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Thanks for your eloquent (and informative) reply! > Yes, you don't need to use the GPL+exception license when you > redistribute, but can just drop the exception statement and distribute > your derived work under the GPL. But as far as I know SWT itself, which > you combine with your own code to create a larger work, the SwingSWT > library, is distributed under the Common Public License, which is sadly > not GPL-compatible. (This might be a good reason to contact the Eclipse > board to ask them again to relicense SWT under something GPL-compatible, > or dual license it under the CPL and GPL or something. Last time we > asked they seemed positive about the idea, but didn't really seem to > have time to work out all the issues.) That is a shame. Still, I have to wonder - who is going to complain? If I distribute and say "My code is LGPL, and here's SWT (which is CPL) to save you mucking about and downloading it", what's the legal position? I wouldn't have thought anyone would sue me (but I guess you never can tell). > Yeah, that would be silly. Make sure to mention explicitly what you are > trying to do with SwingWT (providing a free software alternative for > Swing that is usable now while our "pure" GNU Classpath one is still in > the works) to licensing@gnu.org. They might be able to work out some > solution to help out another Free Software project, with basically the > same objective as GNU Classpath, since in general the current Classpath > license is basically more permissive than the LGPL. > Feel free to forward this email to them (and/or CC me on your email) so > they can tell where I might not be completely right in the above > message. Will do - many thanks for your help! Cheers, Rob -- ===================================================== Robin Rawson-Tetley Animal Shelter Manager (http://sheltermanager.sf.net) SwingWT (http://swingwt.sf.net) I prefer encrypted email. Download my public key at: http://rawsontetley.ath.cx/sfpk.asc
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