Re: [Exist-development] LGPL 2.1 and GPL 2 and all that crap

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

Hi Alain,

Thats interesting, can you tell me where you got that quote from
please? ...so that I can read some more!

On 5 February 2012 21:11, Alain Couthures <ala...@ag...> wrote:
> Hello Adam,
>
> As far as I understand, including a GPL library in eXist-db would imply that
> eXist-db is becoming GPL itself!
>
> "A system incorporating a GPL-covered program is an extended version of that
> program. The GPL says that any extended version of the program must be
> released under the GPL if it is released at all."
>
> -Alain
>
> Le 05/02/2012 21:48, Adam Retter a écrit :
>
>> I really detest trying to understand open source licences. I have
>> placed something which is GPLv2 into eXist-db. eXist-db is LGPL 2.1.
>> It seems to me that from what I can Google and understand (not much),
>> that the licences are compatible.
>>
>> However, I have had some concerns raised that we should not use
>> anything which is GPLv2. As Linux itself is GPLv2 and many companies
>> use this, I am not sure I understand the issue.
>>
>> If anyone is concerned that I should not include GPLv2 libraries,
>> please tell me, but more importantly please tell me why its important.
>>
>> Thanks Adam.
>>
>



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