Baloo Framework - License Exception

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 15 de desembre de 2014, a les 12:21:38, Ivan Čukić va escriure:
> > 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.

They can if you re-write something with the xapian api that is not GPL.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 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.
> 
> Ch,
> Ivan
> 
> On 15 December 2014 at 11:36, Jonathan Riddell <jr at jriddell.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:32:53AM +0100, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > > well yes, that's how the blob drivers like NVIDIA do not need to be GPL
> > 
> > - at
> > 
> > > least that's what the affected parties claim.
> > 
> > the Nvidia drivers do need to be GPL, that they're not just means
> > they're important enough that people tollerate it.  But even Linus
> > agrees it's not compliant with the licence, they implement the Linux
> > interface so they're clearly a derived work of what can only be GPL
> > software.
> > 
> > Jonathan
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