Hi, Christophe On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Christophe Fergeau <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Liang, > > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 04:45:33PM +0800, Liang Guo wrote: >> Libcacard is licensed under GPL3, spice-gtk is licensed under LGPL2.1, >> but spice-gtk may call libcacard, Should this cause any legal problem >> ?
> Actually, there are 2 differently licensed libcacard code bases, there is > the standalone libcacard which you are referring to and which is indeed > GPLv3, but there's also a libcacard included in qemu, which will be used in > the future, and which is licensed as LGPLv2.1 or later according to the > header in each source file. > We really should get rid of the standalone libcacard, this would clear up > this kind of confusions ;) At the very least, I think we can change the > GPLv3 to the more permissive LGPLv2.1+ since both code bases have the same > origin. > > Christophe > Thank you for your reply, will these two licacard be merged ? it is not nessary to have two library do the same thing and have the same name. BTW: most *.[ch] in libcacard downloaded from spice-space don't have copyright header. -- Liang GUO http://bluestone.cublog.cn _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
