Re: [hatari-devel] The IPF license

[Laurent Sallafranque <laurent.sallafranque@xxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm not a specialist in licences and Rights.
I agree with your choice by default.
I know you'll choose the best for Hatari.

Best regards and happy Christmas to all.

Laurent



Le 21/12/2013 12:16, Thomas Huth a écrit :
>   Hi all,
>
> Nicolas and I had a discussion this week, that we likely need an
> exemption to our Hatari license statement, since the IPF library
> license constrains the distribution of the software to non-profit
> usage.
> So I've added now some wording to our license statement to clarify that
> we allow linking Hatari against the IPF library:
>
>   http://hg.tuxfamily.org/mercurialroot/hatari/hatari/diff/36bc5c4cc8b0/readme.txt
>
> Note that this of course does not change the license of Hatari itself,
> we continue with GPL v2, it's just that you also have to take care of
> the IPF license when you link against that library and want to
> distribute the results. (And before somebody asks: Yes, the GPL
> allows such exemptions, something similar is for example also needed if
> you want to link an GPLed program against the OpenSSL library, see
> https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html for details)
>
> Since adding such an exemption is a major change anyway, I'd like to
> ask all here who contributed to Hatari whether this change is OK for
> everybody. Please read through the exemption carefully and provide your
> feedback and concerns!
>
>   Thanks,
>    Thomas