* Søren Hauberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-22 17:20]: > tir, 22 07 2008 kl. 16:48 +0200, skrev Rafael Laboissiere: > > This makes the product ann.oct be released under the LGPL and when it is > > "linked" at run time against Octave itself, which is GPL'ed, we run into a > > license incompatibility problem, apparently. > > > > Again, I am not a license expert and would love if someone prove I am wrong. > > I am also no expert, but the way I understand things is: > > *) ann.oct is LGPL v2 or later > *) Octave is GPL v3 or later > > right? When you link LGPL and GPL code, then LGPL stuff is "promoted" > automatically into GPL. So, the license of ann.oct is automatically > changed into GPL v3 or later when it is linked to Octave. So perhaps > it's a bit silly to license ann.oct as LGPL v2 or later, but I don't > think it's a problem.
Okay, I am slowing get convinced that I was wrong, although the situation is still quite unclear to me. Otherwise, could you please point me to where the "automatic promotion" you mention above is documented? Thanks, -- Rafael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
