Subj : Re: Free CVS/SVN online repos?
To   : comp.programming
From : Rob Thorpe
Date : Tue Jul 12 2005 12:20 pm

Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
> websnarf@gmail.com wrote:
> > Sourceforge offers CVS serving.  Its not exactly free though -- you
> > have to be hosting a project that's tied to some open source license.
> > Usually it doesn't matter, but it does for some people.
>
> Hm, now that you mention it, I'm not sure about
> the legal issues at all...
> I personally don't care about the licensing for
> the code I am writing; I'm doing it in my spare
> time for my own use and people should be free to
> download and modify it if they feel to. I that
> what the GPL stands for? If so, it's gonna be
> released under GPL :)

Fairly much.  It also means that those others who download it cannot
derive a proprietery version from your GPL code.

>
> Anyway, the problem is, I'm using third party
> libraries like libgnomevfsmm, gtkmm, and boost.
> What if those come with different licenses? Do I
> have to choose the most "restrictive" one for my
> own program?

Those are all GPL or LGPL.

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