Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:52:15 -0400 (EDT) | From | " Raymond A. Ingles" <> | Subject | Re: Linux Community & UDI is in the news |
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On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Terry L Ridder wrote: [...] > 2. I raised this question in the first discussion of UDI on this > mailing list. There is no way that UDI drivers which are > GNU GPL'ed can be used in Commercial UNIX distributions unless the > original authors release the source code under two very different > software licenses. Given the responses I received from the original > discussion this seems extremely remote.
Well, the drivers *could* be released under the LGPL (Library GPL) like glibc, which allows linking to, and use by, non-GPL software.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
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