All code currently in Ethereal is GPL no matter what form it is. Executable
or shared library.
Theoreticall one can release code under LGPL but no code in Ethereal has
been contributed under LGPL
so it doesnt matter.
Substantial amount of the GPL code in ethereal is GPL forever and will never
be relreleased under LGPL or anything else.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Biot Olivier"
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:30 PM
Subject: GPL and LGPL (was RE: [Ethereal-dev] Missing p_report_failure)
> |From: Lars Roland
>
> [snip]
>
> |A libethereal.dll might work as a replacement for the plugin
> |api table.
> |I think it is worth a try.
>
> I am curious!
>
> |However we should make it explicitly clear that this is a
> |GPL'ed dll and
> |only GPL'ed applications are allowed to use it. I think of a
> |note on the
> |webpage and specially at the download location for the windows
> |installers and somewhere in the installer.
> |
> |I think there is a special GPL (not LGPL) license for
> |libraries, isn't it ?
>
> You can choose to license your project either with GPL
> (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html) or with LGPL (GNU Library/Lesser
> General Public License, http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html), or any
> other license (BSD, Mozilla ...). While the GPL requires source to be open
> even when linking with the GPL'ed libraries from the GPL'ed project, the
> LGPL allows linkage without the open-source requirement.
>
> As Ethereal is licensed as *GPL* today, this license (automatically)
applies
> to all of Ethereal.
>
> Regards,
>
> Olivier