[Spice-devel] About libcacard and spice-gtk license.

[Alon Levy]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 08:16:34PM +0800, Liang Guo wrote:
> Hi, Christophe
> 
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Hi Liang,
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 04:45:33PM +0800, Liang Guo wrote:
> >> Libcacard is licensed under GPL3, spice-gtk is licensed under LGPL2.1,
> >> but spice-gtk may call libcacard, Should this cause any legal problem
> >> ?
> 
> > Actually, there are 2 differently licensed libcacard code bases, there is
> > the standalone libcacard which you are referring to and which is indeed
> > GPLv3, but there's also a libcacard included in qemu, which will be used in
> > the future, and which is licensed as LGPLv2.1 or later according to the
> > header in each source file.
> > We really should get rid of the standalone libcacard, this would clear up
> > this kind of confusions ;) At the very least, I think we can change the
> > GPLv3 to the more permissive LGPLv2.1+ since both code bases have the same
> > origin.
> >
> > Christophe
> >
> Thank you for your reply, will these two licacard be merged ? it is not nessary
> to have two library do the same thing and have the same name.
> 
> BTW: most *.[ch] in libcacard downloaded from spice-space don't have
> copyright header.
> 

The next libcacard that will be released will be based on qemu/libcacard, which
is what's being worked on. I think it has copyright headers on each file.

> 
> -- 
> Liang GUO
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