pyshapelib as LGPL?

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 12:07, Bram de Greve wrote:
> I have a request for altering the license of pyshapelib from GPL to LGPL.
> IIRC, I think was already set as an idea for a future change, but I would
> to bring the issue forward.
> The reason is pretty obvious: I would like to be able to "import shapelib"
> in Python code that wouldn't be GPL.

So you would want to combine it with proprietary code to create
a proprietary product? 

> The shapelib C library is dual licensed under the MIT license and LGPL so
> that shouldn't be a problem.

Which someone would dual license this way is beyond me as MIT probably
is upwards compatible.

> What do you guys think of it?

We need to discuss this a bit.

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