From: Larry White <ljw1001@...>
Date: 2005-12-12T00:07:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Equation graphing software?

Generally speaking, I prefer BSD (or  Apache) licenses for commercial
work, though for most purposes LGPL is fine.  It really depends on
your intentions since you did the heavy lifting.

The fewer restrictions, the more commercial entities will like it -
the less I have to explain to the company lawyers the better - but you
need to decide whether you'd be happy in the (fairly unlikely) event
that someone goes off and tries to commercialize a version and keep
their changes proprietary.

On 12/11/05, Kevin Brown <blargity@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 09 December 2005 16:04, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:16:55AM +0900, Kevin Brown wrote:
> > > Use the GNU Graph utility.  It has no problem plotting regions and all
> > > kinds of cool things.  You just give it a list of points in the right
> > > order, and that's hunky dory. (so if you got negative and positive, as is
> > > the case for your above equation, just give both (but obviously in the
> > > right order) and you'll get your circle.
> > >
> > > http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/manual/html_mono/plotutils.html#SEC
> > >2
> > >
> > > And actually, I'm currently producing a ruby wrapper for this very
> > > program that will be LGPL'ed or BSD'ed, so how long can you wait to have
> > > this functionality?
> >
> > Are you trying to decide between the two licenses, or are you releasing
> > it under both?
>
> I'm going to release it under a commercially friendly license.  Let me know if
> you have a preference and I'd be happy to be accomodating.
>
>