[BioSQL-l] license

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Feb 19, 2008, at 4:51 AM, Peter wrote:

> As to the licence for BioSQL (your later email), I personally would be
> happy with either of LGPL v3.0 or MIT.  I suspect using the MIT
> licence would be a little more popular with industry (if they want to
> make any changes to the schema, which is probably fairly common).


The LGPL shouldn't stop them from doing that. In fact, neither would  
GPL, or AFAIK any of the open-source licenses - after all, the  
ability to modify existing code is one of the whole points about open  
source.

What GPL would mandate (but LGPL doesn't) is that code linking to it  
that is redistributed also have the source code available.

	-hilmar
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