Re: MySQL 4.0 license change - should be 4.1

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 11:58, Paul Keogh wrote:
> > it's not true... Kannel is a open source project, so GPL just
> > say: when
> > linking against GPL library then source code for this
> > application _must_ be
> > available and this is the case with Kannel. It's not allowed
> > to link closed
> > source applications against GPLed libraries.
>
> But available under what license ? My understanding is that if you
> link or include GPL code into a code base, then that code base itself
> must be made available under GPL.
>
> I recall from the early days of Kannel that using GPL licensed
> components
> was'nt possible, whereas LGPL was OK.

all this stuff can be found at ww.gnu.org ;)

from [2]: using the ordinary GPL for a library makes it available only for 
free programs
(see [1] for definition 'free programm').

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#TOCFreeSoftware
[2] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html

Hope it's clear now ;)

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