[opensource-dev] Open Viewer Development Announcement

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

  On 2010-08-18 6:38, Henri Beauchamp wrote:
> - DO NOT SEGREGATE SUBMISSIONS: since you made Snowstorm LGPL, there
>    is now*no more need*  for the FLOSS exception and for contribution
>    agreements (since you can take a snapshot of the Open Source viewer
>    at anytime and incorporate them to your own closed source viewer,
>    and this without any LGPL contributor additional permission).

There is no longer any FLOSS exception; as you point out, it would be 
redundant with the LGPL.

We still do require a Contribution Agreement, for good and valid reasons 
I've explained many times - most notably that it allows us to improve 
our license in the future.  Had we not required the CA in the past, we 
would not have been able to change from GPL to LGPL.


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