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[Harish Narayanan <harish.mlists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/6/10 7:13 PM, Anders Logg wrote:
> eA bunch of different licenses are used for various FEniCS components,
> mostly different versions of GPL and LGPL.
> 
> I would be practical to clean up among the licenses and maybe even use
> the same license for all components. At least, we should settle on
> either GPL or LGPL v3 or any later version for all components. One
> immediate benefit is that a common license would simplify packaging
> for Debian/Ubuntu since that requires listing all licenses used and
> that involves some work (even for DOLFIN alone!).
> 
> One implication is the need for changing the DOLFIN license which is
> now LGPL v2.1.
> 
> An important point to consider is the potential implication of the GPL
> license used in FFC and UFL, which might force GPL on DOLFIN.
> 
> I have added a blueprint:
> 
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fenics/+spec/license
> 
> Please comment here and on the blueprint whiteboard.

Are there any plans for a proprietary product built atop the FEniCS
components? (Imagine a fancy GUI frontend or something.) Or posed in
another way, how would the community feel if something like this was
built on FEniCS, and sold by someone else (or one of their own) for
profit? (And not have any of their cool extensions contributed back.)

Harish