IANAL... On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Matthew Mondor wrote:
> You are right about the AGPL, however, the LGPL3 license inherits from > the GPL3 one (the LGPL2 license was standalone), and this is as part of > the GPL3: > > " > 13. Use with the GNU Affero General Public License. > > Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have > permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed > under version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License into a single > combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this > License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, > but the special requirements of the GNU Affero General Public License, > section 13, concerning interaction through a network will apply to the > combination as such. > " > > Which is an invitation to include AGPL code (and whenever this happens, > the rest of the project becomes tainted, with the new usage > restrictions of the AGPL applying). Here is my understanding of the issue. Currently, some believe that "Bob cannot use LGPL2 code with AGPL code". This clause was added to clarify that "Bob can use LGPL3 code with AGPL code". If Bob uses LGPL3 code with AGPL code, then he must distribute both the LGPL3 and the AGPL code, but the LGPL3 code does not change licenses. In both cases, Bob's choice to use the AGPL does not affect Alice's choice to ignore the AGPL, just as long as Alice's project does not use any AGPL code. So I have no problem with ECL adopting the LGPL3. (Adopting the AGPL or relying on a core piece of AGPL code would be a different matter.) - Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
