Comment 6 for bug 499788
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| Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) wrote Re: [Zeitgeist] [Bug 499788] Re: License change "LGPL 3" to "LGPL 2.1 or later" | #6 |
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2010/1/7 Seif Lotfy <email address hidden>:
> Here is how i see it. More People use our code the more consultancy we can
> provide even for proprietary.
Yes, but I think you are mixing up "linking" and "copying".
Proprietary applications *can* use Zeitgeist (be it over D-Bus, the
Python module or whatever). What they cannot do is take source code
from Zeitgeist and copy it into their project unless it's
{L,}GPLv3{,+} (eg. they cannot take Zeitgeist and make a proprietary
version out of it, or take our algorithms -once we have something...
*sigh*- and modify them to work in their proprietary application).
If we switch to LGPLv2.1+ nothing of the above changes, the only
difference is that they can copy stuff into {L,}GPLv2{,+} applications
too.
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Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT)
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