From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A82EBC2BA83 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2020 10:23:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C2F4218AC for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2020 10:23:03 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=intenta.de header.i=@intenta.de header.b="YfMA2D1U" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729736AbgBMKXC (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Feb 2020 05:23:02 -0500 Received: from mail.intenta.de ([178.249.25.132]:31573 "EHLO mail.intenta.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729428AbgBMKXC (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Feb 2020 05:23:02 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 436 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 13 Feb 2020 05:23:02 EST DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=intenta.de; s=dkim1; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:CC:To:From:Date; bh=xDWeOIvLELdhKO/BxwyOkoSeks1Qa/qy0pq+uOUUAYk=; b=YfMA2D1UkhvDrEl2eM/5zCsAcDLllgLMvp4Inq2h3Im9XQIwfHIjn+qcBb6CEwsVUSKurgLi8q3tvI3dCqi8QfROegJhr9ZNNKPOxpDA5IS5oEUS8fvnCQgsDF/G3It9aASj4c5zAOi8W1P7yCa0Dm1/1Ly/StVQW8JACCauiRaIVTrU988EyA58dZVK842LVySBgP5tjpo2N86V8FhF5/dn9fzsbeyc7qCUdr5vIHUPDK4Sq4m2U6EBgYEwaHPuZNAza5sPN9qkPHa8ihw02SVtD35ZgGrFHNfb2ZqUFoIeKPlAIZETqSFQ0Rm5yg7dNJpjFGM4afLrJTAG8uT5kg==; Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:15:42 +0100 From: Helmut Grohne To: Bartosz Golaszewski CC: "open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" , "Bartosz Golaszewski" , Kent Gibson Subject: Re: [libgpiod] consider changing the license of the C++ bindings Message-ID: <20200213101542.GA16222@laureti-dev> References: <20200212074243.GA17928@laureti-dev> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) X-ClientProxiedBy: ICSMA002.intenta.de (10.10.16.48) To ICSMA002.intenta.de (10.10.16.48) Sender: linux-gpio-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org 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