On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:07 AM, . <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ch.gosch@googlemail.com" target="_blank">ch.gosch@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">The gpl is sort of my default license. I know it is a little</div>
restrictive, so if that keeps people (if any) from contributing, I will<br>
change the license. As far as I can see, I would be able to change it to<br>
lgpl then, but not to bsd.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>I'm no lawyer, but my understanding is that the code is yours and you are free to license it however you want. If you choose to license your code as BSD and depend on LGPL code, then <i>your users</i> are bound by both the BSD And LGPL licenses, which is effectively as "bad" as being bound by the LGPL. Your portion of the code is still BSD-licensed, though. The distinction would probably be more evident if someone then made a BSD replacement for your dependencies, in which case they would no longer be bound by the LGPL terms if they used your library.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The Haskell community does seem to have a cultural attachment to more permissive licenses, so you'll likely see a lot more adoption if you do use BSD, but it's obviously up to you.</div><div><br>
</div><div>-Dan</div></div>