Inversely, if the Gnash project copy and pasted code (and edited or not) from Lightspark for a Gnash AVM2, would there be a clash of licenses?
Dennis > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:25:40 -0700 > From: Rob Savoye <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Gnash-dev] Reuse of Gnash code in Lightspark > To: Timon Van Overveldt <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On 12/18/10 10:19, Timon Van Overveldt wrote: > > > Having Gnash's implementation as a reference has been very helpful in > > understanding how to implement this functionality. > > The wonders of free software. :-) > > > Now I was wondering about the following: > > Lightspark is licensed under the LGPL3, while Gnash is licensed under GPL3. > > Are you guys ok with me licensing my implementation under LGPL3? > > Am I breaching the terms of the license by doing this? > > If I am, please note that this is not on purpose and that I will try to > > resolve the situation immediately. > > Well, Gnash is also a GNU project, so the copyright for the External > Interface code is owned by the FSF. I believe you'd need to ask RMS or > Eben for a real opinion. The decision isn't really up to the Gnash team, > or even myself, who wrote the External Interface code, because of this. > Because Gnash is not a library, the GPLv3 has been fine. > > - rob - > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Gnash-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev > > > End of Gnash-dev Digest, Vol 59, Issue 21 > ***************************************** > _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
