Re: [OT] from LGPL to dual-license?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 01/29/2009 05:27 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
[snip]
> Still, that's much easier than building proprietary or dual licensed work on 
> top of GPL software.  The FSF's interpretation is basically that anytime GPL 
> licensed code is integral to the functioning of the larger work (dynamic 
> linking, static linking, IPC, *anytime*) the larger work must be licensed 
> under the GPL, effectively forbidding proprietary or dual licensed works from 
> being built on it.

Note that Linus doesn't agree with that idea, which is why, for 
example, the nvidia driver is allowed.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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