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shadowsocks / shadowsocks-qt5

A cross-platform shadowsocks GUI client
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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About the LGPL license #514

Closed ChickenSeller closed 7 years ago

ChickenSeller commented 7 years ago

I am developing an open-source GUI client (exactly a GUI front-end) for the V2Ray peoject under LGPLv3. Most features of my project are the same as that in the front-end part of shadowsocks-qt5 project. So my project is partly based on shadowsocks-qt5 project. Some components are used in the form of entire reference (e.g., the ShareDialog and the QRCodeCapturer),the license information in these components is intact. However, some little code blocks are modified and used in separated places. Must I attach the raw license information wherever they are used? Or I just need to put the information in the LICENSE file of my project and make a statement？ I opened this issue and asked the question to avoid any unnecessary trouble.Looking forward to your reply. Thanks.

librehat commented 7 years ago

Any references about the license in the source code should be kept. As long as your license is LGPL, I believe there shouldn't be any legal problems. I'm OK with a reference or statement stating the code was part of this project. Hope this helps you.

ChickenSeller commented 7 years ago

Thanks for your reply!