GPL Linking exception or transformation to LGPL?

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

Hi Christophe,
I find it awesome. As history shows our contribution model is largely
based on such cases.
Several things:
- as Jos has said unless the code is distributed, no changes have
(even in GPL) to be published; we're not using AGPL
- architectural: to encourage reuse we need to have a library, could
you list the files you're using?
- practical: if you list files that you need we can collect list of
persons that own the copyright

Then the discussion can continue.
Personally I am all for turning code into libraries when reuse is
requested with possible back-contributions!

The reason a lot of things is a general purpose library is that it
costs more in development and maintenance so the cost would have to be
shared, e.g. by contributing the code/design back.


On 14 June 2015 at 14:59, Christophe Conil <christophe.conil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi together,
>
> First, congrats for what you did with with Calligra! I'm a everyday user :-)
> To introduce myself in 2 words: My name is Christophe, I'm french/german, 30
> years old, and trying to create a software company right now.
>
> I'm developing an online service (Not a spreadsheet, but some kind of
> teamwork online tool.) and I'd like to use one component of Calligra Sheets
> inside it (The formula component.). I managed to identify a finite amount of
> files I would need for this. Please find the filelist attached .
>
> My question is: Is there any chance to get a license modification on those
> files to get a GPL linking exception? I guess less likely a license change
> to LGPL? I'm willing to provide any changes I do to those files and to
> provide (if needed) a standalone linking library of it, but I'd like to call
> this library from a proprietary QT environment.
>
> I would be very thankful if anybody is able to give me a hint on how to
> proceed, or give me a contact I could discuss an agreement with.
>
> Thanks, best regards, and good luck with Calligra 3.0 !
>
> Christophe Conil
>
>
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