On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 13:40 +0900, Jooncheol Park wrote: > Hi, all > I saw http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/tree/COPYING > but, I know PolicyKit license was MIT/X11 until 0.9 > > Does PolicyKit going to change the license from MIT to LGPLv2 ?
Yes, the new version of PolicyKit is a complete rewrite and the software architecture is very different from that of PolicyKit 0.9.x. Anyway, since you can do everything you need (as an user of PolicyKit) through the D-Bus interfaces or supplied command-line tools, the LGPLv2 license should not be a concern since process boundaries are involved. And, just FWIW, I don't consider someone using the PolicyKit D-Bus interfaces to be a derived work of the PolicyKit daemon. If you are writing extensions to the PolicyKit daemon (such as a backend or information provider) then these extensions will need to be LGPLv2 since they arguably are derived works of the code in the PolicyKit daemon. Hope this clarifies. David _______________________________________________ polkit-devel mailing list polkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/polkit-devel