nanogui: Licensing
Subject:
Re: Licensing
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
2 Jul 1999 12:46:17 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9907021342240.18188-100000@www.linuxhacker.org>
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> My understanding is that even under LGPL you still suffer 'pollution'
> unless your very careful. By this I mean, if you had a propriety part
> that will form part of the 'library' that other people are going to use,
> this gets polluted and falls under LGPL. The only way that proprietary
> code is kept clean is if it an application uses the LGPL'ed stuff as a
> library.
That's part of what I meant about the APIs. It would be difficult, and
pose some needless restrictions, to get it seperated carefully in such a
way that a proprietory graphics card driver or window manager wouldn't be
regarded as part of "the library". I suppose we could just draw the line
and say "no proprietory graphics card drivers or window managers allowed",
though it would be a shame to have to do that for the sake of using the
LGPL (of course this is just the kind of thing the FSF want to happen-
their code is free so so should everybody else's).
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