Question about relicensing of exo code

Xavier D. magicrhesus at ouranos.be
Fri Nov 5 15:36:43 CET 2010


I'm packaging thunar-vfs for Archlinux so yes I would like to know which 
one I should use in my package.
I'll put LGPLv2 + GPLv2 if you don't see any objections ?

On 11/05/2010 03:31 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On ven., 2010-11-05 at 14:34 +0100, Xavier D. wrote:
>> It's a bit complicated these stories of licenses.
>> If I correctly understand what you mean, thunar-vfs is GLPv2 + LGPLv2 ?
> thunar-vfs is LGPLv2. exo-hal was (wrongly, aiui) GPLv2. So you can't
> import (and link) it into thunar-vfs without making thunar-vfs GPLv2
> too.
>
>> But Benedikt told in a previous email it's 'only' LGPL.
> Yes, exo-hal was wrongly licensed, it seems...
>
>> Finally, I'm not sure which way to choose.
> You don't have to choose.
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