Mir licensing

Daniel van Vugt daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com
Fri Apr 12 06:32:53 UTC 2013


All,

There has been some confusion and misinformation floating around about 
GPL vs LGPL in the Mir source.

The latest [1] advice I've heard is that we want everything to be GPL 
except where it can't be (in client processes). This means LGPL for 
client library source (and shared stuff that might go into 
libmirclient). Otherwise GPL everywhere else.

If I'm wrong (again), please discuss it here, or in another bug like 
1168225 [2].

Keep in mind the official instructions [3] for using GPL and LGPL.

- Daniel

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1151171/comments/9
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1168225
[3] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html



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