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uniQ
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by uniQ » Sun Dec 12, 2004 12:04 pm
ROS is GPL, but when making contributions, everyone seems to say that LGPL is better for the individual contributions. Why (is) this?
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by Gasmann » Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:50 pm
uniQ wrote: ROS is GPL, but when making contributions, everyone seems to say that LGPL is better for the individual contributions. Why (is) this?
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As far as I understand the LGPL only makes it possible to use the project in commercial software, but maybe I'm wrong.
SirTalon
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by SirTalon » Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:53 pm
LGPLs main difference from GPL is that non open source (non GPL/LGPL/etc), can not link against it (like it can't be used as a library).
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by e7 » Sun Dec 12, 2004 8:43 pm
A DLL, licensed under the terms of LGPL can be used by other programs like MSOffice. If the DLL is licensed under GPL and MSOffice use it, MSOffice must be GPL too.
Or you can say if you would say it extremly: If you write a GPL-Macro in MSOffice, MSOffice must be GPL
uniQ
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by uniQ » Mon Dec 13, 2004 2:39 am
But why is licensing contributions as LGPL preferred when ROS is GPL to begin with?
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by sedwards » Mon Dec 13, 2004 7:24 am
It needs to be LGPL so we can share code with Wine. 3rd party software can be licensed anyway it wants as it does not use our SDK/DDK to build. Even if they did our SDK and DDK is public domain so the only time someone must GPL or LGPL the application is if they directly use our source code in that application.
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by Epmak » Mon Dec 13, 2004 10:51 am
uniQ wrote: But why is licensing contributions as LGPL preferred when ROS is GPL to begin with?
Not sure but why just not contribute code related to wine under 2 licenses:
GPL & LGPL
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