I fully second this, and your first more elaborate email sounds sensible to me, although I do not know enough about it to really evaluate it.
Ralph. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, 7 October, 2014 19:22 > To: Sylvain Munaut; Lev Serebryakov > Cc: [email protected]; Alexander Kurpiers > Subject: Re: Using librtlsdr in BSD 2-clause project? > > Sylvain, YOU and the community, particularly the community, will get more out > of it if you leave Youssef alone than if you wave a red > flag in his nose. He's that kind of a person. And I cannot say I blame him > for it. > > The license for a DLL or shared library should be LGPL. I realize you are > stuck at GPL. But, you can do an Obama and not be a stickler > for enforcement. This is one instance where that might be appropriate. > > {^_^} > > On 2014-10-07 03:41, Sylvain Munaut wrote: > >> 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). > > > > Mmmm ... when we first evaluated SDR#, the source of the plugin was > > available and the plugin was shipped separately _without_ any > > automatic installer (and yes, this makes a difference, automation > > makes it circuvemption of copyriht covered by DMCA or equivalent). > > > > Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we'll take the appropriate > > actions. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Sylvain > >
