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Someone *please* correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the general

That is what i understood, and was my main reason for selecting the
LGPL license in stead of GPL. 

Regards,
Brian

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Mike Delaney<mmdst23@g...> 
To: 
Date: Thu Nov 17 05:36:16 CET 2005 
Subject: [oc] GNU GPL or Lesser questions 

> Someone *please* correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the general 
> difference is: 
> 
> If your cores were LGPL, anyone could use it in whatever design 
> they 
> wanted, but if they changed any of the cores you released in the 
> process, they would have to release their changes. 
> If your cores were GPL, and someone used them in a design, their 
> entire design would have be released under the GPL. 
> At least, that's my understanding (or misunderstanding). 
> Mike 
> On 11/16/05, Nicolas Boulay <nico at seul.org> wrote: 
> > If you maid a difference between student and XYZ Corp in your 
> licence, you 
> > don't do 'free software' anymore. 
> > 
> > You could use GPL or LGPL to force user to publish there 
> modification to your 
> > core. If you own all the copyright, you could also sell 
> "closed" version of 
> > your code, like Trolltech do for Qt and MySQL Labs with Mysql. 
> > 
> > Nicolas Boulay 
> > 
> > Le mercredi 16 Novembre 2005 19:40, dsp at mail2.qortek.com a 
> écrit : 
> > > I've read over both GPL and GNU Lesser licenses, and have 
> one concern. 
> > > Hopefully someone here has experience or can offer an 
> explanation. 
> > > 
> > > My concern is this: 
> > > I've written/am writing core modules for my TI Dev board 
> project, and 
> > > want to release these cores as 'free software' to 
> individuals, 
> > > however, would like those that would use this set of 
> cores in a 
> > > profitable way to contribute back to QorTek in one form 
> or another. 
> > > 
> > > I have no problem with students/individuals using these 
> cores for 
> > > school/personal projects, in fact I encourage them to do 
> so. But if 
> > > XYZ Corp wants to use the cores in verbatim/modified form 
> and sell 
> > > that software based on these cores, is there a way to 
> impose fees on 
> > > them? Is there another license that covers this? 
> > > 
> > > I dont want to start any flame wars, I'm just new to GNU 
> GPL/Lesser 
> > > and general software licenses. 
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance. 
> > > Brian 
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