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On 01/17/2012 11:21 AM, Benoit Jacob wrote:
> 2012/1/17 Christoph Hertzberg <chtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> One obvious answer is "BSD/MIT" but it is clear from private
>>> conversations that there is opposition to that from a very significant
>>> part of the project members. So while I can't rule out the possibility
>>> that we'd some day relicense to such liberal licenses, this can't
>>> happen in the near/foreseeable future. We need a better license than
>>> the LGPL, sooner.
>>
>>
>> Mostly out of curiosity: What are the current concerns against BSD/MIT?
>
> I'll let others state their own concerns :-)
>
> If they don't, let's just say that copyleft-vs-liberal is a quite old
> contentious debate and it's not surprising that we don't have
> consensus on it.
Not to stir any waves or something, but +1 on using BSD. What are the concerns amongst the Eigen developers on using BSD?
Cheers,
Radu.
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