From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miklos Vajna Subject: Re: git to libgit2 code relicensing Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:33:27 +0100 Message-ID: <20081115193327.GS24201@genesis.frugalware.org> References: <491DE6CC.6060201@op5.se> <20081114234658.GA2932@spearce.org> <20081115123916.GN24201@genesis.frugalware.org> <7vk5b55ekb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lXBubL3wS507qnlw" Cc: "Shawn O. Pearce" , Linus Torvalds , Andreas Ericsson , Git Mailing List To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 15 20:34:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L1Quw-0005Gg-Fd for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:34:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751985AbYKOTdb (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:33:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751963AbYKOTdb (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:33:31 -0500 Received: from virgo.iok.hu ([193.202.89.103]:58668 "EHLO virgo.iok.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751959AbYKOTda (ORCPT ); Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:33:30 -0500 Received: from kag.elte.hu (kag.elte.hu [157.181.177.1]) by virgo.iok.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63D85580C9; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:33:29 +0100 (CET) Received: from genesis.frugalware.org (frugalware.elte.hu [157.181.177.34]) by kag.elte.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31FCF44698; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:33:27 +0100 (CET) Received: by genesis.frugalware.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C09B5119019E; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:33:27 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7vk5b55ekb.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --lXBubL3wS507qnlw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:00:52AM -0800, Junio C Hamano 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. >=20 > 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. --lXBubL3wS507qnlw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAkkfJAcACgkQe81tAgORUJY5EgCglKIphd6wzda+EuA47Xxv0kO8 RcEAlRhxGq5ZjrvFyCT/eYb+4DUumT4= =nw6L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lXBubL3wS507qnlw--