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GNU license. What a SAD license it its. #37

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dmilith opened this issue Sep 1, 2014 · 7 comments
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GNU license. What a SAD license it its. #37

dmilith opened this issue Sep 1, 2014 · 7 comments

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@dmilith
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dmilith commented Sep 1, 2014

Is it possible for you to change GPL to LGPL? It would help me using your software.

@edolstra
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edolstra commented Sep 2, 2014

How would it help you?

@darealshinji
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I thought LGPL is only useful for libraries?

@dmilith
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dmilith commented Sep 2, 2014

I would merge it with my project: https://github.com/VerKnowSys/sofin to use it on FreeBSD/ Linux hosts.
Currently i'm doing prefix replacement very hacky way sofin-rpath-patcher.cc - it works, but far from how it should be done. Your project might be solution for my software patcher.

LGPL allows me to use your code in my code, which is licensed under BSD license.

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dmilith commented Sep 2, 2014

If you wont agree I will still use this patcher using prebuilt code (externally), but it's just such a political overcomplication :}

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edolstra commented Sep 2, 2014

It wouldn't be easy to change the license, given that it contains code from several contributors, who would all need to approve of the change.

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chenz commented Oct 3, 2014

I don't think the LGPL allows you to merge any code into a BSD-licensed project. It would only allow linking.

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dmilith commented Oct 3, 2014

Doesn't matter anymore. Unfortunatelly Patchelf isn't reliable on FreeBSD. So I gave up.

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