On Jun 9, Timo Korvola wrote:
> Teika Kazura <[email protected]> writes:
> > The problem is the copyright. Wang Diancheng borrowed code from
> > glib, or more precisely, glib-2.x.y/glib/gutf8.c, which is
> > licensed with LGPL. On the other hand, librep is GPL. Should it be
> > GPL, or LGPL?
>
> GPL. Once you paste GPL on something, it sticks and spreads: all
> derived works have to be under GPL in their entirety. LGPL is more
> flexible and explicitly allows relicensing under GPL.
If the issue is code LGPL code from glib being used in a GPL'ed
librep, then everything is fine. It's the other way that is
problematic.
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