This was a huge argument when Eina came into EFL. IIRC the profusion guys
that wrote Eina were adamant on it being LGPL and even looked into the
possibility of trying to make the rest of EFL LGPL. Of course getting all
the author permissions to do so would be impossible so that was nixed. So
the state of things license wise is what it is today. As far as the
implications of that, I haven't studied it much.  Can you provide the exact
language that makes you believe this to be true?

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018, 6:58 AM Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was checking out the situation regarding licensing and read the current
> state in https://github.com/Enlightenment/efl/blob/master/README. As far
> as
> I can tell the library at the bottom of our dependency tree, Eina, is LGPL
> whereas most others are BSD - which includes the main Efl library.
>
> As far as I can see this means that the BSD Efl lib will restrict to LGPL
> automatically if statically linked.
> Is that the intention?
>
> I was hoping to use static linking for a project but I don't want to pass
> this restriction up stream. Is there anything I can do and/or have I
> misunderstood the situation at all?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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