On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Thomas Jarosch <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 29. April 2010 03:18:44 Jie Zhang wrote: >> As I understanding of the "GPL compatible", it should be OK to have >> some files licensed under X11 license in a GPL software. But I don't >> know if it's OK to put some portion of X11 license code in a GPL >> licensed source file. Since if you do that, you have to put X11 >> license in that source file as my understanding of the clauses of the >> X11 license. > > Also libftdi is licensed under the LGPL ;) > > Easiest thing would be to ask the original author if it's ok > to relicense the code under the LGPL, this should be safe. >
I think the author may be a bit reluctant to do that. I think his license is more permissive than LGPL actually. http://svn.navi.cx/misc/trunk/nds/dsi/ram-tracer/host/fastftdi.c But his code actually uses libusb-1.0, which is again LGPL. Maybe asking him to use dual-license is possible. -- Xiaofan http://mcuee.blogspot.com -- libftdi - see http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi for details. To unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
