Re: license ambiguity - the license.

[Chris Waters <xtifr debian org>]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:08:28PM -0400, Michael Meeks wrote:
>         Yes ORBit is LGPL, all of it. Copying probably states otherwise,
> that's a bug though.

No, it's not a bug -- the libraries are LGPL (so apps that use ORBit
can be anything as long as they link dynamically), but the IDL
compiler and other utilities _are_ GPL.

Output from the IDL compiler should be the same license as the input
(NOT, as Frank claimed, LGPL) -- just like, e.g. GNU cpp or m4.

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

ORBit *does* have GPL'd components, but there's no gotchas involved.
Standard practice here: LGPL for libraries, GPL for executables.

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