[reportlab-users] Svglib 0.6 to be released soon

[Stephan Richter]

On Tuesday 23 September 2008, Dinu Gherman wrote:

> I've had some bad experience with changing another project

> of mine from GPL to MIT, because I believed people telling

> me they would not be allowed to contribute to the project if

> it stayed under GPL, which is kind of perverting the idea of

> the GPL, and I'm not willing to repeat this.


I have heard about this in the past, but never investigated the details, since 
I had no immediate need.


> Anybody who wants to use (and modify) svglib will be able to

> do so, even after downloading it as an egg. For other, add-

> itional, licenses you'll need to convince me with good argu-

> ments.


The main problem is that you cannot use it in commercial projects. Since this 
sort of technology is mostly useful to professional developers, that's a 
bummer. In the Zope world we have been really happy with the ZPL license and 
contributing back to the source code has never been an issue.

Regards,
Stephan
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