On 11/01/2011 10:22 PM, Pieter Hintjens wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Martin Sustrik<[email protected]> wrote: > >> AFAIU the linking exception as defined in COPYING.LESSER is not longer >> valid because people submit patches under LGPL for the last year or so. >> Thus, iMatix can't grant any special exceptions. > > This is not quite how it works. Note that the LGPL is itself > constructed as an exception to the GPL. When you submit a modification > of a work that is licensed under the LGPL+exception that modification > is licensed the same way.
OK, I see. GPL, section 7. >> The question remains what is the exception good for anyway. It doesn't >> seem to grant any special rights that LGPL doesn't grant in the first place. > > The default LGPL requires that you either (a) use only a dynamic > library or (b) release your entire app as (L)GPL. The static linking > exception does what it says, it lets you link libzmq into static > executables. This was originally required for iOS but also used by > people on other systems. Right, I recall now. Anyway, we have a problem there. The exception states "As a special exception, iMatix gives you permission..." meaning that it applies only to the pieces of the codebase owned by iMatix. It should be rephrased to "copyright holders" or "contributors". Martin _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
