libhal, udev, and libvolume_id - licensing??

Gordon Schumacher gordon at rebit.com
Tue Sep 9 18:23:47 PDT 2008


Kay Sievers wrote:
> The license on that page is wrong, libvolume_id is not BSD, and never
> was in the past.
>   

That's what I figured :)
I'll pass a note along to the Gentoo folks...

> The Linux code in the HAL daemon is GPL, so it makes the HAL daemon
> GPL on Linux, other platforms have different licenses, as long as they
> do not use the Linux code.
>   

*snip*

> It should be fine to use it under the AFL 2.1, or GPL if you like.
>   

So, just to be sure I'm clear - the daemon is GPL on Linux, but one can
write software that would utilize libhal (versus the HAL daemon) under
the AFL?


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