Re: picogui license

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Hi Micah

I didn't get an answer to my last mail. No time? No interest? Did it not 
arrive?

Thanks!
Benjamin


Micah Dowty wrote:
> On 5/26/06, Benjamin Collar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Different parts of PicoGUI are licensed differently. The server and
> many of the standalone tools and applications are GPL. These
> components never need to be linked with a developer's own application
> code.
> 
> The client libraries, which do get linked into people's applications,
> should be LGPL'ed. If there are any GPL'ed files in the client
> libraries, this is a mistake.
> 
>> This is a significant risk for all users of PicoGUI.
> 
> 
> PicoGUI has users?
> 
> --Micah

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