D-BUS Licensing?

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Mon Jan 24 05:22:43 EET 2005


On Thursday 20 January 2005 17:55, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 12:50 -0800, Colin Johnson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what the licensing is for D-Bus and whether it be used
> > in a commercial product or not?
>
> You should read the COPYING file that comes with dbus.
>
> (You have the choice of two licenses; the GPL or the AFL. The AFL is a
> "BSD-style" or "X-style" license.)

And I guess it would be possible to implement the D-BUS protocol yourself 
under any licence you'd like to have.

Cheers,
Kevin



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