Re: libfdt: going forward for u-boot
From: Segher Boessenkool <hidden>
Date: 2007-03-22 11:16:49
From: Segher Boessenkool <hidden>
Date: 2007-03-22 11:16:49
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One thought that occurred to me since we last discussed this is to relicense it LGPL. That way it could be linked into proprietary code without having to maintain a dual license and the copyright assignment headaches that come with outside contributors.Heh. The lawyers suggested that too, but I talked them out of it. The trouble with LGPL is that to satisfy its conditions you need to be pretty careful about how you link things together.
Yeah, the LGPL is even more work for lawyers than the GPL. You could try a BSD- or MIT-style license perhaps, those are *really* easy to understand, even to lawyers :-) Segher