Re: Licensing a work using a GPL-ed library under the LGPL

2007-09-02 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Francesco Poli wrote: In the KDE+Qt example, the recipient is allowed to port the KDE library to a toolkit other than Qt. If the chosen toolkit is licensed under a more permissive license than the GPL (e.g.: LGPL, Expat, 3-clause BSD, Excellent answer. I also realized that if a person has a co

Re: Licensing a work using a GPL-ed library under the LGPL

2007-09-02 Thread Francesco Poli
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:50:06 +1000 Ben Finney wrote: > Shriramana Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > But I don't understand what is the meaning of licensing something > > under the LGPL if it is effectively under the GPL anyway because it > > uses a GPL-ed library. > > Because it also a

Re: Licensing a work using a GPL-ed library under the LGPL

2007-09-02 Thread Ben Finney
Shriramana Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility > > says that a work using a GPL-ed library can be licensed under the > LGPL "if you convert to GPL". For example the KDE libraries which > use the GPL-ed Qt libraries are themselve

Licensing a work using a GPL-ed library under the LGPL

2007-09-01 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Hello. The matrix under http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility says that a work using a GPL-ed library can be licensed under the LGPL "if you convert to GPL". For example the KDE libraries which use the GPL-ed Qt libraries are themselves licensed under the LGPL.