IANAL, but I think that this falls under the "System Libraries" and "Standard Interface" exceptions. It's why you can distribute GPL'd software on top of non-Free platforms (eg. Win32, .NET, Java until fairly recently, ...)
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Colin Walters<[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Joone Hur<[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> Mutter(Metacity+Clutter) is very impressive technology. >> However, Mutter seems hard to be used on embedded devices. >> Because Metacity uses GPL license and most of HW accelerated OpenGL/ES >> library use a proprietary license. > > First, I'm not a lawyer. Now, a question - would the "generic > interface" exception cover this? As I understand it, that's where > it's not "linking" if A is using B through a mechanism that's not > specific to B at all, and can be replaced with C and D. > > Now that Mutter is more of a library (in addition to an application) > it would probably make sense for it to be LGPL to fit in with the rest > of GNOME libraries, except that, well, relicensing is hell... If > someone wants this to happen, they need to actively drive it (and have > lots of patience), or find someone who will. > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -- "I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
