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Greetings

I have discovered a serious issue with the licensing scheme of PicoGui: 
PicoGui is distributed under the LGPL. But many of the files in the 
distribution are copyrighted by a developer or entity and are licensed 
under the GPL.

Anything that's released under the LGPL can be freely re-distributed 
under the GPL; the inverse, however, is not true. From what I can tell, 
the entire project may not, at this time, be distributed. PicoGUI needs 
to be released under the GPL or corrected in some other way.

Looking at the directory structure:

server --> has GPL files, builds an independent application
client --> has GPL files, different client stubs provided for building 
independent applications
tools  --> has GPL files, (what do they do? how are they distributed?)
apps   --> has GPL files, different independent apps are built

Given the above, distributing PicoGui under the LGPL is incorrect. Doing 
so violates the GPL and therefore you lose the right to use the GPL 
software.

This is a significant risk for all users of PicoGUI. When a software 
developer sees an LGPL project, he would understand that he could link 
his proprietary program to it, dynamically, and have no problem. 
However, if the "LGPL" library really has GPL bits in it, it's no longer 
valid to call it LGPL, and its distribution is illegal. Any company who 
has already integrated LGPL has a problem, at this point in time.

It would be great if the development team would rectify this situation 
in some manner or another; here are some ideas:

- make a 0.46.1 release, change all LGPL files and notices to GPL, and 
change the project page on sourceforge, etc, to say "GPL".
- remove all the GPL pieces (either newly write them, or persuade the 
copyright holder to distribute the file to you under the LGPL)
- put a big note on the web page that says, "this may not be distributed 
due to open source licensing issues" and removing all files from the 
download area

In any case, the last point above should be executed, because it should 
be made clear to all users that the 0.46 release may not be distributed.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Benjamin Collar

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