Hello: * Philip Edelbrock <phil at edgedesign.us> [2004-05-10 12:56:54 -0700]: > If there are license incompatibilities that can only be solved by > changing the license of lm-sensors, then the answer is almost certainly > 'No'. IANAL, but even if we went forward with making an exception for > you, we would need to track down all the copyright holders that have > touched lm-sensors and get explicit permission to change the license for > this exception. > (snip the rest) (IANAL) Remember that the GPL only restricts release/redistribution (source and/or binaries). If you do not redistribute the results, you can link GPL'ed libraries to whatever you want: http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic > Subba wrote: > > >It is a legal question. > >I am asking becuase the README file has the following: > > > >Note that at this moment, libsensors falls under the GPL, not the LGPL. > >In more human language, that means it is FORBIDDEN to link any > >application > >to the library, even to the shared version, if the application itself > >does not fall under the GPL. This will probably be changed in the future. > >In the meantime, you will have to contact us first if you want to do > >this. Regards, -- Mark M. Hoffman mhoffman at lightlink.com
