Re: [Banshee-List] License question

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be>]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 18:24 -0400, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On 3/30/07, Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com> wrote:
> > Yes, MIT code can go into GPL code, but not the other way around. MIT is
> > very liberal, so have at it. However, it would be nice if you retain
> > credit and copyright.
> 
> Sorry to get a bit tangential, but why is this? Seems like that could
> be slightly less than ideal, given that there could possibly be some
> good GPL'ed code Banshee could use. (Rhythmbox's recent
> crossfading/gapless GStreamer backend work comes to mind.)
> 
> I suppose it's because the GPL is more restrictive than the MIT license?
> A

In short: yes (depends on your definition of restrictive). The GPL
forces you (among things) to release any code you write under the GPL.
Also, it doesn't allow linking to proprietary libraries (something we
have to do for multimedia format support).


--
Ruben Vermeersch (rubenv)
http://www.savanne.be