Hi, 2014-08-20 18:36 GMT+02:00 ronnie sahlberg <[email protected]>: > I think the biggest gotcha with LGPLv3 is that it is no longer > compatible with GPLv2 only code. > Wireshark does not have any GPLv2only code right? If not, we should be ok. > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Evan Huus <[email protected]> wrote: >> http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/08/20/adding-lgpl-v3-to-qt/ >> >> I don't *think* this affects us, but I haven't thought about it too hard. I think this license change may be problematic for companies distributing Wireshark with new LGPLv3-covered Qt if they don't want to share their patents covering Qt for free (due to LGPLv3's patent clause).
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer and this is not a legal advice. Cheers, Balint ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <[email protected]> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
