From: Franz Schrober <franzschrober@xxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Franz Schrober <franzschrober@xxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v2 * Removed paragraph in "Why not GPL?" about "give-back" parts of the license which no longer applies FAQ | 24 ------------------------ 1 file changed, 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ index 290de0e..8ef6e84 100644 --- a/FAQ +++ b/FAQ @@ -42,30 +42,6 @@ A. See the previous question: I personally think that the front end they want to have a proprietary back-end, that's ok by me too. It's their loss, not mine. - At the same time, I'm a big believer in "quid pro quo". I wrote the - front-end, and if you make improvements to the semantic parsing part - (as opposed to just using the resulting parse tree), you'd better - cough up. The front-end is intended to be an open-source project in - its own right, and if you improve the front end, you must give those - improvements back. That's your "quid" to my "quo". - - -Q. So what _is_ the license? - -A. I don't know yet. I originally thought it would be LGPL, but I'm - possibly going for a license that is _not_ subsumable by the GPL. - In other words, I don't want to see a GPL'd project suck in the - LGPL'd front-end, and then make changes to the front end under the - GPL (this is something that the LGPL expressly allows, and see the - previous question for why I think it's the _only_ thing that I will - not allow). - - The current front-runner is the OSL ("Open Software License", see - http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl.php), together with a note on - what makes source derivative and what does not to make it clear that - people can write back-ends for it without having to make those - back-ends available under the OSL. - Q. Does it really parse C? -- 1.8.4.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html