Re: [Notion-devel] Is any of the notion@sf.net admins around?

[Olof J. <ol...@et...>]

On 2010-08-20 16:36, M Rawash wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 13:19 +0000, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > That is about GPL, not LGPL, I'm not sure, but I don't think they are
> > as strict about the latter. (Don't take my word for it though.)
> 
> LGPL is indeed less strict than the GPL, but only in practice (for
> example, you can convert LGPLed code to GPL, but not the other way
> around), LGPL is essentially GPL for libraries, they are both
> copyrighted by the Free Software Foundation, and that's why they are not
> to be modified under any circumstances, unless you have a special
> permission from the copyright holder (the FSF). 

Uhm, yeah, that's not what I meant. I meant I think FSF is a bit less
strict about how you use LGPL than they are about how you use GPL. But
as I said, I'm not certain. But nevermind, I think we're somewhat on the
same page now.

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