libfdt: going forward for u-boot

Segher Boessenkool segher at kernel.crashing.org
Thu Mar 22 22:16:09 EST 2007


>> 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




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