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Re: Licensing problems: CDDL and LGPL



Vincent Fourmond ha scritto:
>   There is no need for a solution: for dual-licensed stuff, or for "or
> later" stuff, you just need that one combination of the licenses makes a
> whole which is legally distributable/usable. You don't need to change
> any license here. The combination of both packages can only be used
> under the conditions of both LGPL 2.1 and GPL 2, which are compatible,
> but it does not prevent anyone from picking up some code of freehelp and
> use it as LGPL 3 or some code of openide-util and use it as CDDL. This
> person will simply not be able to use either with the other if he
> chooses to do so.

Ok, it seems reasonable. I didn't realize it.

Thanks, Giovanni.
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Giovanni Mascellani <mascellani@poisson.phc.unipi.it>
Pisa, Italy

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