On 13.08.2013 21:54, Jeff Remy wrote: > Hi, > I have a question regarding the UCI Lua bindings license. > libuci itself is LGPLv2.1, the cli utility is GPLv2 and the Lua > bindings are GPLv2. > I was wondering if this was on purpose? > It does not seem to be in line with the library but again, there might > be other reasons.
i am not associated to the UCI authors/project. so i cannot tell you why they did it. however, usually licensing like this is done because GPL is restrictive when it comes to linking. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Linking_and_derived_works because of that lots of projects choose to provide libraries on LGPL or other licenses that do not enforce an OS license on the code the library is linked against to make the library more attractive for commercial usage. other components that do not need to be linked stay under GPL though. ..ede _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
