[Zlib-devel] zlib and LZMA

[Mark Adler]

On Aug 19, 2006, at 12:41 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Please please please do this only using a conventional open source  
> license,
> since - again it's our laywers - are already versed in the  
> particularities
> and can give thumbs up and thumbs down, without huge investments in  
> review
> of YAOOL (yet another one off license).  Pick the existing one  
> closest to
> the desired goal.

Well, I'll try, but if there isn't one that meets our needs, then it  
will have to be a YAOOL.  As for the huge investment, I can certainly  
see how there would be a huge investment in analyzing the rather  
lengthy GPLish licenses out there.  In fact there will be an enormous  
investment on my part attempting to understand several of those long,  
existing licenses before I could pick one and use it.  (The nice  
thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.  I  
count 58 approved licenses on the opensource site, including the zlib/ 
libpng license.)  The YAOOL I'm envisioning would be the current  
three-restriction zlib license with a fourth, single-sentence  
restriction added.  How huge was the investment to analyze the  
current zlib license?

> It is a shame Igor hasn't recognized the success of the zlib  
> development model ...

It is my understanding that Igor would like to maintain his own  
income stream, which comes from custom applications of his code for  
commercial use.

mark