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Re: [Qemu-devel] QLicense chaos
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Jamie Lokier |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] QLicense chaos |
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Sat, 8 May 2010 00:02:34 +0100 |
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Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Moreover, some of the QObject files are LGPL, some GPL. I bet this was
> also not intended. But what was the idea behind the LGPL? Some libqmp which
> can be used by closed source apps?
I believe LGPL is needed for source apps that have GPLv2-incompatible
licensing. E.g. GPLv3, Apache license, OpenSSL? (I'm not sure exactly.)
And for those who want to keep their own apps BSD-like.
-- Jamie