Hi Micah
Thanks for the answer. My comments are below.
Micah Dowty wrote:
On 5/26/06, Benjamin Collar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings
I have discovered a serious issue with the licensing scheme of PicoGui:
PicoGui is distributed under the LGPL. But many of the files in the
distribution are copyrighted by a developer or entity and are licensed
under the GPL.
Different parts of PicoGUI are licensed differently. The server and
many of the standalone tools and applications are GPL. These
components never need to be linked with a developer's own application
code.
I would never have guessed that the server is GPL, since there is the
file picogui-0.46/server/COPYING which is LGPL.
But picogui-0.46/server/video/libvncserver/COPYING is GPL. Besides that
the project is listed as an LGPL one--this further adds to the
confusion, IMHO.
The client libraries, which do get linked into people's applications,
should be LGPL'ed. If there are any GPL'ed files in the client
libraries, this is a mistake.
c/include/picogui/applet.h GPL
c/src/applet.c GPL
python/pgui-cli_python-cvs-0.ebuild GPL (I understand that that's no
problem, just writing it here for completeness)
This is a significant risk for all users of PicoGUI.
PicoGUI has users?
lol. Well, I came across this in a roundabout way but essentially from a
user, so yes.. :)
Thanks for your time
Benjamin
--Micah
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