Re: Plug-in Licensing

2010-10-19 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Justin Seyster writes: > Thanks for this advice. The link to the GCC Exception was especially helpful. > > The trick here is that I'm actually releasing a library designed to be > linked into plug-ins. I want the library itself to be copyleft but > for plug-in authors to retain any licensing fl

Re: Plug-in Licensing

2010-10-19 Thread Justin Seyster
Thanks for this advice. The link to the GCC Exception was especially helpful. The trick here is that I'm actually releasing a library designed to be linked into plug-ins. I want the library itself to be copyleft but for plug-in authors to retain any licensing flexibility that they would have whe

Re: Plug-in Licensing

2010-10-19 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Justin Seyster writes: > I'm getting ready to release plug-in code, and I want to have a very > clear idea about licensing before I release. I'm leaning towards > releasing everything as GPLv3, but I do want to know exactly what is > and isn't allowed. GPLv3 is fine. > I know this issue was de

Re: Plug-in Licensing

2010-10-19 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:05:51 -0400 Justin Seyster wrote: > I'm getting ready to release plug-in code, and I want to have a very > clear idea about licensing before I release. I'm leaning towards > releasing everything as GPLv3, but I do want to know exactly what is > and isn't allowed. A defini