RE: Dangerous back door in the LGPL
"Brian Vincent (C)" <[email protected]>
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> Btw, I'm not the first to complain about this, some big guy at RedHat also > pointed out this problem. He recommends snipping away that part of the > license... I wouldn't exactly call this news. This has been pointed out for years and for the same number of years people have been removing that little clause or prepending it with a note that the software is licensed only under a specific version. The Linux kernel had this debate a long time ago, currently it's licensed under v2 and only v2 of the GPL. I think they made the change during the 2.3 series. --------------- Brian Vincent Copper Mountain Telecom [email protected]