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On 07.10.2014 10:46, Alexander Kurpiers wrote:

>> So, I ask direct permission from authors to use librtlsdr in BSD 
>> 2-clause licensed open-source project.
>> 
> 
> Actually, it would make far more sense to change the license of
> the library from GPL to LGPL. Then corner cases like this are well
> covered. The executables can of course stay GPL.
 LGPL will be ideal, IMHO.

> For the application programmer a GPL'ed library is a pain, as it
> either forces your app to be GPL (which for various reasons is not
> always feasible), not to ship with the rtlsdr library (but have the
> customer install it from some internet source - e.g. the way SDR#
> does it with their install script
> http://sdrsharp.com/downloads/sdr-install.zip) or
 SDR# is strange: it doesn't provide even sources of plugin, but
plugin linked directly with library become GPL for sure. Another
question, why SDR# itself doesn't become GPLes, when it links with
library via dynamically-loaded plugin (exactly same situation as with
my project).

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// Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov
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