Re: libgnomesu [was Re: Proposed modules: my consensus so far]

[Mike Hearn <mike navi cx>]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:50:52 +0100, Hongli Lai wrote:
>>   - su-backend/common.c:modify_environment() is a copy of usermode and
>>     su code, both of which are licensed under the GPL, and you've 
>>     removed the copyright notice and re-licensed to LGPL.
> 
> Hm this is a problem indeed. Maybe license the setuid executables as 
> GPL, and the library as LGPL?

Oh whoops, hit enter too soon. My reading is that you can't do that, the
GPL doesn't really care about technicalities of linking although people
often act like it does. Is the code really so complex it can't be
rewritten?