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From: Helmut Grohne <helmut.grohne@intenta.de>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Cc: "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Bartosz Golaszewski" <bartekgola@gmail.com>,
	Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libgpiod] consider changing the license of the C++ bindings
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:15:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200213101542.GA16222@laureti-dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMRc=Mdcg2hp0VUsQHO2kW_uTiDAvDTCckad9D5Ja002wn1LAA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 01:58:40PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> one more thing that's unclear to me: I found this post[1] on the eigen
> mailing list and started wondering: what makes MPL2 better than LGPL3?
...
> [1] https://listengine.tuxfamily.org/lists.tuxfamily.org/eigen/2008/02/msg00003.html

Thank you for pointing me to this. I mostly looked at the LGPL-2.1 and
overlooked the fact that libgpiod already uses the "later version"
language permitting use of LGPL-3. Indeed, the situation is much better
for LGPL-3 due to precisely the paragraphs referenced in that mail.

Thank you

Helmut

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-13 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-12  7:42 [libgpiod] consider changing the license of the C++ bindings Helmut Grohne
2020-02-12 10:00 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-02-12 12:36   ` Kent Gibson
2020-02-12 12:58   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-02-13 10:15     ` Helmut Grohne [this message]
2020-02-13 10:17       ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-02-13 10:28         ` Helmut Grohne

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