nanogui: Licensing
Subject:
RE: Re[2]: Licensing
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
12 May 1999 18:21:07 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905121903280.1171-100000@hyperspace>
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Greg Haerr wrote:
> I like that. Do you think then that GPL is the way to go in order to get source
> code for drivers back, etc, or is it too restrictive for people who want to use this
> stuff commercially?
It really wants to be allowable to link commercial code to it (window
managers, applications linked directly to the server instead of
client/server mode, etc.). That could be a problem if we aren't careful.
For example, for years the only floating point emulator available for
ARM-Linux was a binary-only module (Acorn gave the code to Russell under
NDA), which caused no end of problems due to the fact that you weren't
allowed to link it statically to the kernel, and nothing worked if you
weren't able to load the module for some reason. We don't want to end up
in the same position, but I'm not quite sure how to avoid it if we GPL
everything. Perhaps if we LGPLed the API, but not the core code?
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