On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Ivan Čukić <ivan.cu...@kde.org> wrote: > > > Albert is right, Baloo is LGPL but the resulting binaries will be GPL. > > Again, this serves no purpose other than 'we are using LGPL' since > libbaloo clients can not be non-free - they will have to link to the GPL > binary. > > I'd rather have an exception to the rule than having something that will > confuse the library users even more - it is LGPL, but I can not use it from > non-GPL code. > > If we make Baloo GPL and then happen to change the database used we would have to relicense all of Baloo. That would be a lot of admin work contacting all developers.
David
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