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Re: [XOM-interest] LGPL vs. GPL with library exception
- From: John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>
- To: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: xom-interest <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] LGPL vs. GPL with library exception
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:43:51 -0500
I wrote:
> The main difference between the LGPL and GPL+exception ("the license
> of Guile") is that an LGPL library used in an application must be
> plug-replaceable by the end user, whereas a GPL+exception library
> need not be. In the Java environment, that's a distinction without
> a difference. So I'd go to the GPL+exception, just because it's easier
> to mentally model than the LGPL.
In any case, the license of Jaxen does not contain any points incompatible
with either the GPL or the LGPL, because the request to note the use of
Jaxen code in the documentation is just that, a request, not mandatory.
So go ahead and bundle Jaxen, whatever decisions you make about the
license of XOM.
--
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<jcowan AT reutershealth.com>
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Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
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Re: [XOM-interest] License Poll
, (continued)
- Re: [XOM-interest] License Poll, Luca Passani, 02/09/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] License Poll, John Cowan, 02/09/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] License Poll, Elliotte Harold, 02/09/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] License Poll, John Cowan, 02/09/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] License Poll, Elliotte Harold, 02/09/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] License Poll, Luca Passani, 02/09/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] License Poll, Elliotte Harold, 02/09/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] License Poll, Dirk Bergstrom, 02/09/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] License Poll, John Cowan, 02/09/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] LGPL vs. GPL with library exception, John Cowan, 02/07/2005
- Re: [XOM-interest] LGPL vs. GPL with library exception, Elliotte Harold, 02/08/2005
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