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

[Alain C. <ala...@ag...>]

That's the official FAQ:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html#GPLInProprietarySystem

Le 05/02/2012 22:12, Adam Retter a écrit :
> 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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