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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:12:45 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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Subject: Re: An Ode to GPLv2 (was Re: GPLv3 Position Statement)
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Willy Tarreau wrote:
> 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.
> 

That sounds like the LGPL to me...

	-hpa
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