All I want to know is whether it is ok to link my application (which will be installed on an appliance we ship to our clients) with lm-sensors. I don't want to commit any changes to lm-sensors code. Mark M. Hoffman wrote: >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, > > >
