-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 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). - -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJUM8D+XxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRGOTZEMUNBMEI1RjQzMThCNjc0QjMzMEFF QUIwM0M1OEJGREM0NzhGAAoJEOqwPFi/3EePlXUQAIz1eRj7D72/jEbUaCAIWVYq leg4DlaCyoDyb8vLS4WKhBTRpUfifOyNSPMNPogPXWJY/xACXww8hZ3zhEc+/ZWK Q8TB7vzW03CRfwo07URk7TJiHaf2s5Dpf7/2Gi4SH4zkZzvCI45xeV3Ui0DVvQva CZ9xKnuLFAnaWKEEqU9RDfpLM4VTYPO9iZnimZ3WU471yhIlp32EczbF+goxMSGj m7A4+a1p1ssvTMxI96kKDZpI6RGFw/KGD7u/c77B6JmRGXeTO6fEJ1yaJNzNDJon eT924QUWG7k2S0Yf3bezZ/iyJj0DA/MkxxA/fNLEbgEEBZ0MU8Bk3RlcnF4l28FU AejzadldW0CLoAAmuh+R7UUyWAmjxT0M3C32pFEfz2igDM6CU0WnnTO0/2VpPIdU B8HkNcXT+yfQqxc1ilUHXQLsoVe24oN+Mw+42PN7TOAJ/+hntYSSq0ry6gm34qEs qPwSLSlWPKEUKTxF9tDwi7WZ7BuAWz8v/bIIcSKCYk/Y45QHRL90bNKlZYKGetmH 34szSmJ10LscCsuX4SjtZOugU/R/qmCwUKFP4kT9rZemL2AFXChsq9Kx1jK37gR/ H/bAFpbvIC5l46ZlWQE9VZiyZeRFvAj4gBRv6gHjuKm5LPk2vUhw6vnIULG2uoCy W+Ku+vQ5+do5IUAsMw0N =goG0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
