Re: license ambiguity - the license.

[Sam Couter <sam topic com au>]

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Michael Meeks <michael@ximian.com> wrote:
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>         Yes ORBit is LGPL, all of it. Copying probably states otherwise,
> that's a bug though.

I was under the impression that the IDL compiler was GPL and the
run-time libraries are all LGPL. This combination allows ORBit to be
used in commercial applications.

>         ORBit would not be a part of the GNOME project if it was not LGPL,
> there are no licensing gotchas in GNOME core libraries.

There's two parts to ORBit: libIDL and the IDL compiler, which are used
at development time, and the run-time libraries, which are linked
against by applications and used at run time. The run-time libraries are
part of the GNOME core libraries, but the IDL compiler isn't.
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