Re: [Tracker] License of libtracker-sparql

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 07/08/12 15:13, Richard Shephard wrote:
> Dear All,

Hello Richard,

First of all, sorry your email took so long to get through, it was stuck 
in the "waiting for approval" queue and I am still on holiday at this point.

> In the main tree of Tracker (http://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/tree),
> the COPYING file gives GPLv2 as the license.

Yes, I have to say, this is a little out of date and we should fix that.

> In the src directory, the libtracker-sparql, the headers give LGPLv2.1.
>
> We want to use tracker but for a commercial product we don’t want GPL code.

I understand.

> If we link against the libtracker-sparql library, would this be LGPL or
> GPL license?

LGPL. It's meant to be that anyway, the COPYING file is a file is a 
standard template and you can see it dates back to 2008. We updated all 
the libraries (maybe more) to be LGPL a few years back.

Ultimately, the best way to check is to make sure all .h, .c and .vala 
files (i.e. all sources needed to build libtracker-sparql) have the LGPL 
header (to be sure). They should do. If they don't it's a bug.

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.