Re: D-Bus AFL/GPL issues (was Re: GLib plans for the next cycle)

2009-04-24 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > As mentioned above, dropping my use of libdbus' "helpful" object path mapping > and just using a filter function was a net code reduction. Getting pretty off-topic, but the object path mapping in DBusConnection isn't intended to be a c

Re: D-Bus AFL/GPL issues (was Re: GLib plans for the next cycle)

2009-04-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 at 21:11:13 +0100, Robert McQueen wrote: > dbus-python has had to duplicate a lot of the checking that libdbus does > to validate calls before calling methods in libdbus, because whilst > libdbus requires the application programmer gets stuff right at all > times, dbus-python ca

Re: D-Bus AFL/GPL issues (was Re: GLib plans for the next cycle)

2009-04-23 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Robert McQueen wrote: > Havoc Pennington wrote: >> >> Nobody has yet explained (to my satisfaction anyway) how the libdbus >> license has an issue the LGPL does not have. Perhaps we should get >> Luis or SFLC on the case, but I'm not sure it's worth their time. > >

Re: D-Bus AFL/GPL issues (was Re: GLib plans for the next cycle)

2009-04-23 Thread Robert McQueen
Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Robert McQueen > wrote: >> My belief is that the problem is that under certain implementations >> of LGPL, the stuff you link the LGPL library to must also be LGPL >> compatible, and that the AFL patent clause is not. > > This d

D-Bus AFL/GPL issues (was Re: GLib plans for the next cycle)

2009-04-23 Thread Robert McQueen
Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, Hi Havoc, > Just for the record, my comment on this has always been that the > license issues were not earth-shattering to begin with, and the > relicensing was just throwing a bone to people who cared. Not sure > "large chunk" is super accurate, either. As a practic