El Dilluns, 15 de desembre de 2014, a les 12:21:38, Ivan Čukić va escriure: > > Albert is right, Baloo is LGPL but the resulting binaries will be GPL. > > Again, this serves no purpose other than 'we are using LGPL' since libbaloo > clients can not be non-free - they will have to link to the GPL binary.
They can if you re-write something with the xapian api that is not GPL. Cheers, Albert > > I'd rather have an exception to the rule than having something that will > confuse the library users even more - it is LGPL, but I can not use it from > non-GPL code. > > Ch, > Ivan > > On 15 December 2014 at 11:36, Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:32:53AM +0100, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > well yes, that's how the blob drivers like NVIDIA do not need to be GPL > > > > - at > > > > > least that's what the affected parties claim. > > > > the Nvidia drivers do need to be GPL, that they're not just means > > they're important enough that people tollerate it. But even Linus > > agrees it's not compliant with the licence, they implement the Linux > > interface so they're clearly a derived work of what can only be GPL > > software. > > > > Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > > Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list > > Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel