Re: [eigen] New Licensing FAQ

[Radu Bogdan Rusu <rusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Willow Garage (www.willowgarage.com) is one of these "companies" using Eigen (though we're more like a robotics 
incubator/lab at the moment as we're in a lucky situation of not having to generate revenue due to our 
founders/sponsors) as part of our ROS (Robotic Operating System) project (www.ros.org), which is completely open source, 
released under a BSD license.

We've already exposed our Eigen dependency at http://www.ros.org/wiki/eigen, and approximately 39 packages in our 
repository use it already (as of today).

I went through the new FAQ and I found it readable and quite informative. Obviously, we at Willow would love to have all 
our software dependencies having BSD licenses, but since the world is not perfect we can live with LGPL too :). At least 
for now. :)

Cheers,
Radu.

Rohit Garg wrote:
> Seems good enough.
>
> It'd be interesting to know which commercial companies/products are
> using eigen, if it is possible to list them on the wiki.
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Right now we are fishing some rather big fish who have uninformed
> > concerns about the LGPL licence. So I thought that I'd rewrite the
>
> Let's hope your fishing skills are one of the best :)
> > corresponding FAQ in a very redundant way, so that everyone find what
> > he's looking for. So now, there's
> >  - general questions on the LGPL
> >  - specific questions for proprietary software
> >  - specific questions for BSD-licensed software
> >
> > It's here:
> > http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Licensing_FAQ
> >
> > I'm interested to know if you disagree or if you can correct my English...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Benoit, from the amateur legal department

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