Re: contrib and licensing

On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 16:31, mlw wrote:
> I know nothing in contrib should be GPL, I have no problem with that.
> The question is the requirement of a GPL library to build a contrib project.
>
> My SOAP/XML function will probably require my LGPL library as there is a
> lot of code I have written that I would need to implement it.
>
> Is there any sort of philosophical problem with that?

There is a big difference between an LGPL'd library and a GPL'd library.

The latter may have problems as I believe your code should be GPL'd, but
the former should be fine.

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