On 10 November 2010 18:55, Don Stewart
Libraries with non-BSD deps haven't been considered for the HP, and would be problematic, in my opinion. Applications are far less of a concern, though guaranteeing that anything in the platform can be hacked freely for any use would be a positive statement.
Yes, at some point before the next proposal round opens I'd like to propose a policy along the lines that HP packages must be usable for developing software under any reasonable license including proprietary licenses. That would allow GPL tools (e.g. gcc is GPL but is used to compile proprietary code) and allow LGPL libs but would exclude GPL libs. I expect the contentious point in such a discussion to be around LGPL libs (partly because there tends to be a great deal of unnecessary confusion around it anyway). Duncan