On Wednesday, 6 September 2017 at 09:23:33 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 at 16:10:11 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
My question, is there a legal way to change the current
license to Boost or MIT or something like? Because this
particular developer wanted to use it in a project where LGPL
was incompatible.
[1]: https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/libX11
[2]: https://github.com/nomad-software/x11
I thought x11 has MIT flavor license. Where LGPL comes from? If
x11 is LGPL licensed header license doesn't affect anything:
application of LGPL is determined by linking. Though GPL and/or
LGPL have an exception for system libraries.
Under LGPL, Deimos libX11 has been released.
For binding library, LGPL is actually the same as GPL since it's
linked statically.
Unlike LGPL for which you can create closed source apps if
library is linked dynamically, the only way to use derelict
binding with LGPL license is GPL compatible license for your
application.
