Re: An Ode to GPLv2 (was Re: GPLv3 Position Statement)

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:00:05PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 06:40 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > do a few months back. After all the fuss about binary-only modules
> > incompatibility with GPLv2, I wanted to change the license of haproxy
> > to explicitly permit external binary-only code to be linked with it. 
> 
> LGPL is then a logical and commonly accepted choice for a license

Not exactly, because I don't want people to include interesting parts
of my code into their binary-only programs. I just want to allow
people to link binary-only modules with my program. However, programs
that are already GPLv2 are welcome to steal part of my code.

Regards,
Willy

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[Index of Archives]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Photo]     [Stuff]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Video 4 Linux]     [Linux for the blind]     [Linux Resources]
  Powered by Linux