Re: [Hamlib-developer] Licensing

[Stephane F. <f8...@fr...>]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> If I recall, Frank had agreed to the LGPL change and these files were
> likely just an oversight.  I want to be sure until I change my files.
> Perhaps we should carefully go through the remaining files and be sure
> they are all LGPL before the 1.1.4 release.

	(fillods@charybde:hamlib)$ grep '"GPL"' */*.c
	gnuradio/gr.c:  .copyright =     "GPL",
	yaesu/ft100.c:  .copyright =            "GPL",
	yaesu/ft817.c:  .copyright =            "GPL",
	yaesu/ft920.c:  .copyright =          "GPL",

- gnuradio is GPL, on library constraint.
- IIRC, ft100 and ft817 were written by Chris AA1VL, cloning Frank's work
before the licensing change.  I hope he'll be okay to relicense
accordingly.
- ft920: Nate, you decide :)

> Some GPL and som LGPL code could cause projects such as Debian
> heartburn.

It should be fine, since the frontend library is LGPL, and backends
are plugins, i.e. the end user is reponsible to load them or not,
according to their license.
Maybe it should also be possible to compile selectively backends.


73
Stephane