Re: An Ode to GPLv2 (was Re: GPLv3 Position Statement)

H. Peter Anvin
2006-09-28T00:13:26Z

Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:00:05PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 06:40 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>>> do a few months back. After all the fuss about binary-only modules
>>> incompatibility with GPLv2, I wanted to change the license of haproxy
>>> to explicitly permit external binary-only code to be linked with it.
>> LGPL is then a logical and commonly accepted choice for a license
>
> Not exactly, because I don't want people to include interesting parts
> of my code into their binary-only programs. I just want to allow
> people to link binary-only modules with my program. However, programs
> that are already GPLv2 are welcome to steal part of my code.
>

That sounds like the LGPL to me...

-hpa