From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QLicense chaos
Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 00:02:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100507230233.GA7836@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BE46C8A.2010002@web.de>
Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Moreover, some of the QObject files are LGPL, some GPL. I bet this was
> also not intended. But what was the idea behind the LGPL? Some libqmp which
> can be used by closed source apps?
I believe LGPL is needed for source apps that have GPLv2-incompatible
licensing. E.g. GPLv3, Apache license, OpenSSL? (I'm not sure exactly.)
And for those who want to keep their own apps BSD-like.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-07 23:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-07 19:39 [Qemu-devel] QLicense chaos Jan Kiszka
2010-05-07 19:56 ` [Qemu-devel] " Luiz Capitulino
2010-05-07 23:02 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2010-05-08 0:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
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