[avahi] [ANNOUNCE] Guile-Avahi 0.2

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 30.07.07 18:47, Ludovic Courtès (ludo at chbouib.org) wrote:

> > Ludovic, I hope you are aware of the problems licensing a library
> > under LGPLv3 brings? LGPLv3 software is NOT compatible with GPLv2-only
> > sources. Which is a real problem, I would say.
> 
> Yes, I'm well aware of this.  The rationale was that it's unlikely that
> any GPLv2-only non-trivial program using Guile-Avahi exist, so it's not
> like a complete software stack was suddenly collapsing because of this
> change.  ;-)
> 
> In effect, this will preclude *eventual* creation of GPLv2-only programs
> that use Guile-Avahi, but I don't have any problems with that.
> 
> Did you have more specific issues in mind?

Nope. I am happy. Just wanted to make sure that you knew what you were
doing!

(I am a GPL3 proponent, as a side node. But due to the aforementioned
reasons it is unlikely that I will be changing the Avahi license to
LGPL3 anytime soon)

I'd love to see some statistics about how many projects except the
kernel actually use GPL2-only.

Lennart

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