From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:33:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081115193327.GS24201@genesis.frugalware.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vk5b55ekb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:00:52AM -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Under LGPL, you must provide linkable object files to your (possibly
> closed source) program, so that people who made changes to (or obtained an
> updated version of) a LGPL'ed library can re-link your program and use the
> updated library. The above does not ask you to do so.
>
> The way I read LGPL is that "We deeply care about our LGPL library and any
> improvements to it. Although we do not care at all about how your crappy
> closed source program is written, we want to make sure that the users can
> keep using your program after improvements are made to our library.". I
> do not think it makes a practical difference when your program uses the
> LGPL library as a shard library from that point of view.
Ah, I see - so this is a "Lesser LGPL". :)
Thank you both Junio and David.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-15 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-14 20:59 git to libgit2 code relicensing Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-14 21:33 ` Martin Koegler
2008-11-14 21:46 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-11-14 22:57 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-14 22:56 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-15 17:13 ` Martin Koegler
2008-11-14 23:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-14 23:46 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-15 4:30 ` David Brown
2008-11-15 5:00 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-15 8:04 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-15 18:39 ` David Brown
2008-11-15 12:39 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-11-15 13:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-15 19:33 ` Miklos Vajna [this message]
2008-11-15 22:12 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-15 18:49 ` David Brown
2008-11-15 16:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-15 10:17 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-15 10:28 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2008-11-15 11:05 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-15 11:33 ` Pau Garcia i Quiles
2008-11-15 11:52 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-15 18:53 ` David Brown
2008-11-16 1:30 ` Daniel Barkalow
[not found] ` <200811151615.42345.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
2008-11-16 11:50 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-16 21:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-16 21:09 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-11-17 7:24 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-17 15:40 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-11-17 21:44 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-20 17:41 ` René Scharfe
2008-11-25 15:19 ` Kristian Høgsberg
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