On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 08:57 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > Hmm, are there optional dependencies to libdbus that cause it to become > GPL, or why would anyone choose GPL for libdbus? I believe some folks don't like the Academic Free License. This might explain the reasons: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#AcademicFreeLicense (which links to https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OSL ) > Also "demoted to GPL" sounds like we have an opinion about GPL (it sound > like we think LGPL being of a higher rank than GPL). In terms of restrictions, LGPL is less-restrictive, so I think that should stand as an objective assessment. :) -- Arun
