On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 13:59 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > On 06/25/2013 01:49 PM, Arun Raghavan wrote: > > 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 ) > > Hmm. So the AFL is GPL incompatible, but compatible with about > everything else. So if you have something GPL, libdbus turns GPL, > otherwise you'll use it as AFL. So in practice, there isn't a problem here. There is a problem if you're not happy with AFL's patent stuff. -- Tanu
