git repository of rild

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer mickey at openmoko.org
Thu Feb 12 16:04:09 CET 2009


Am Thursday 12 February 2009 15:47:09 schrieb Cédric Berger:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 18:17, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
>
> <mickey at openmoko.org> wrote:
> > I see, too bad. I can't change the license to GPL3 nor LGPL since the
> > origin explicitly mentions GPL2. Since Qt will be licensed LGPL soon,
> > perhaps Qtopia sees something similar.
>
> The library comes from Qtopia originally ?

Yes.

> It should be available as LGPL in some times, but even now I guess it
> can be obtained as GPLv3  (?) :
> ex : ( http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/device-creation/licensing )
> "Open Source Licensing
> Qt for Windows CE and Qt for Embedded Linux are offered to the Open
> Source community under the GNU General Public License (GPL versions 2
> and 3). GPL packages must not be used for proprietary, commercial
> development."
>
> Just as it is dual licensed (commercial / GPL), I think they can give
> it as GPLv3.
> Well technically they can, and seeing their license statement GPL3
> should be ok for them...

Well, I think this is irrelevant as long as the header in the file explicitly 
states GPL version 2.

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