Licence Issues

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Hi I am developing a Commercial application that I would like to use your
library so I don't need to implement my own svg output functions.

Is it possible for you to distribute your code under a less restrictive
license like lgpl or MIT or Python licences

Stu

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 12 Jun 2008 at 2:41

[GoogleCodeExporter]

sorry not really a defect but rather a request.

Stu

Original comment by [email protected] on 12 Jun 2008 at 2:43

[GoogleCodeExporter]

I'd rather not, but for the sake of the stability of your product, rather than 
any
free-software principles.  SVGFig is not meant to be a library built into a 
larger
product, but an end-user interface.  I've recently made a lot of progress on 
SVGFig
2.0 which has a new interface that I think will be more intuitive (that was the
primary design goal of version 1.x also).  When the interface changes, humans 
can
adapt, but if it's a piece of a larger program, the program can start showing
unexpected behavior that another developer wouldn't be able to recognize and 
fix.

The 1.x branch will always be available and minor bugs in 1.x will always be 
fixed,
but that's for the sake of being able to return to old analysis scripts, not to 
keep
a software product alive.

You might be overestimating the difficulty of outputting to SVG: after all, 
they're
just text files--- it's a matter of putting print statements in for loops.  If 
you
let me know what you'd like to do, I can point you to the relevant line numbers 
or
provide a simple example.

Does the GPL prohibit copying small functions?

Original comment by [email protected] on 12 Jun 2008 at 7:34

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