Re: GPL Licensing

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 14:51 -0600, keith preston wrote:
> I was looking into integrating a network manager frontend control into
> one of my applications.   However I do already link against some GPL
> incompatible code.   Does this mean that I can't do this?   I would 

I'm not 100% sure, but I think you're correct here.

> assume that I couldn't use libnm-glib.   However, if I wrote my own
> LGPL bindings against the dbus-specifications and then linked against
> that would that be ok?

Writing your own D-Bus binding bits as LGPL would most likely be OK.
libdbus and dbus-glib have pretty liberal licenses in this regard.

Dan