Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751200AbWIYNa5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:30:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751220AbWIYNa5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:30:57 -0400 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:18963 "EHLO 1wt.eu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751200AbWIYNa4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:30:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:07:11 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: An Ode to GPLv2 (was Re: GPLv3 Position Statement) Message-ID: <20060925130711.GC1517@1wt.eu> References: <1158941750.3445.31.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20060925044010.GN541@1wt.eu> <1159185611.3085.26.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1159185611.3085.26.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 942 Lines: 21 On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:00:05PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 06:40 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > do a few months back. After all the fuss about binary-only modules > > incompatibility with GPLv2, I wanted to change the license of haproxy > > to explicitly permit external binary-only code to be linked with it. > > LGPL is then a logical and commonly accepted choice for a license Not exactly, because I don't want people to include interesting parts of my code into their binary-only programs. I just want to allow people to link binary-only modules with my program. However, programs that are already GPLv2 are welcome to steal part of my code. Regards, Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/