From: Dan Winship <danw@gnome.org>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>, Sander Visser <sander@visser.se>
Cc: "yocto@yoctoproject.org" <yocto@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: libsoup license
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 16:43:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55FC7769.8030307@gnome.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LZY5kfRN3Ed1tBicPSX3yZOYExcO=U6eiccv2AkO4pE+g@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/18/2015 04:07 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> To be honest libsoup isn't very clear
...
> Dan: exactly what license is libsoup under? LGPL v2 precisely, or LGPL
> v2 or greater?
I don't know either. :-)
It was initially written at a time when Ximian was explicitly using the
"v2 only" license on evolution (because reasons), so it's possible that
libsoup was intended to be v2 only, since it was more-or-less part of
evolution. But then, Novell relicensed evolution to v2+ later on, so
presumably, if libsoup actually was v2-only at that point (which it may
not have been), then surely Novell *intended* to also make libsoup v2+,
despite not having said so. So... "maybe it used to be v2+" + "probably
it was intended to have been changed to v2+ later if it wasn't already"
+ "certainly everything written since 2007 was intended to be v2+" ==
"probably definitely it's v2+ now" ? That's totally how the law works,
right?
-- Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-18 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-11 10:32 libsoup license Sander Visser
2015-09-18 20:07 ` Burton, Ross
2015-09-18 20:43 ` Dan Winship [this message]
2015-09-18 21:32 ` Burton, Ross
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