Re: gnome-vfs daemon, GPL and LGPL

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander Terekhov
On 2/24/06, Lionel Elie Mamane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] According to my understanding, if the interface between the daemon and what spawns it is tight (undocumented suggests tight), then the GPLness of the daemon taints the library, which taints applications that link against it. A

gnome-vfs daemon, GPL and LGPL

2006-02-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi list, I've noticed that the gnome-vfs2 source package includes some GPL source files. These are the sources of gnome-vfs-daemon. As I understand it, the daemon is not essential for the gnome-vfs functionality, but it is spawned when some operations are requested. To what level do you think

Re: gnome-vfs daemon, GPL and LGPL

2006-02-23 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:00:46PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: I've noticed that the gnome-vfs2 source package includes some GPL source files. These are the sources of gnome-vfs-daemon. As I understand it, the daemon is not essential for the gnome-vfs functionality, but it is spawned when