[ghemical-devel] should libghemical-2.0 be LGPL:d?

[Tommi Hassinen]

Hello all,

recently I was informed that libghemical has been ported to Windows 
platform, as a DLL:

 	http://graphics.cs.brown.edu/research/winlibghemical/

At least yet I have not managed to port the ghemical app itself (the 
current GTK2 versions) to Windows, even though I tried (at summer) to 
compile gtk+-2.0 in Windows using cygwin/mingw32.

But now I have started to think about libghemical and it's usability as a 
part of other programs ; I think that once it's role is still a bit more 
clarified, and it's interface to client applications (ghemical + others 
later) cleaned up, I would be ready to change the license from GPL to 
LGPL.

What I still want to do before changes in license, is to better define the 
interface to libghemical ; how a client application should use it. This is 
an important matter, because it defines what is normal use of a library 
and what is an extension of a library. It is good to make these things 
more clear (regardless of any licensing questions).

Do you have experience, comments, etc about LGPL?

 	Tommi