From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: licence for LGPLed files
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 08:43:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1168792992.3123.918.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0701141430220.26276@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 14:32 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >There are various files (in my copy of the Ubuntu 2.6.15 source) which
> >have an LGPL licence, but there isn't a copy of the licence in the
> >distribution as there should be. Changing them to GPL seems the best
> >thing to do.
>
> Changing them to GPL seems the hardest and most instrusive thing to do.
well technically they don't need to be changed at all because they ARE
gpl as long as they're part of the kernel effectively (LGPL has that
"conversion to GPL" clause) ; only when used outside they are actually
lgpl....
also most of the files in question are header files where LGPL actually
makes sense when those same headers are used in userspace...
so how about not changing anything since there is no need to change..
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-14 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-14 12:07 Dave Love
2007-01-14 13:32 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-14 16:43 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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