[GEM-dev] gpl vs lpgl license question

IOhannes zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.kug.ac.at
Tue Jul 15 10:03:52 CEST 2003


tigital wrote:
> hey guys,
> 
> ...I've just done a "quick and dirty" port of a bunch of Pete's_Plugins, 
> which are under the lpgl, and I notice that Gem is gpl'ed:  will this 
> cause any problems?  
no not at all.
LGPL is sort of less restrictive then GPL, as you can use it for both 
free and proprietary software, whereas GPL'ed software may only be 
reused in free projects.


 > I'm not familiar with these kind of formalities ;-)
of course, this is, as far as i understand it ;-)

mfg.asd.ra
IOhannes





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