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jjk-jacky / statusnotifier

Library to use KDE's StatusNotifierItem via GObject

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Change license to LGPL #1

Closed KAMiKAZOW closed 10 years ago

KAMiKAZOW commented 10 years ago

It's likely hurting SNI adoption when this library dictates the application's license. A switch to LGPL would not change the copyleft status of this library but not longer force applications to be under GPLv3.

jjk-jacky commented 10 years ago

It may be so, but I'm happy with it being a contribution to/for the free software community; See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html

KAMiKAZOW commented 10 years ago

There are free software licenses that are incompatible with the GPL. The Mozilla License 1.1 is a prominent example. Software under GPL v2 (without "or any later version" clause) also cannot use the library legally.

Just saying...