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Date: Sat, 8 May 2010 00:02:34 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QLicense chaos
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Moreover, some of the QObject files are LGPL, some GPL. I bet this was
> also not intended. But what was the idea behind the LGPL? Some libqmp which
> can be used by closed source apps?

I believe LGPL is needed for source apps that have GPLv2-incompatible
licensing.  E.g. GPLv3, Apache license, OpenSSL?  (I'm not sure exactly.)

And for those who want to keep their own apps BSD-like.

-- Jamie