linux-kernel - Re: An Ode to GPLv2 (was Re: GPLv3 Position Statement)

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Message-ID: <20060925130711.GC1517@1wt.eu>
Date:	Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:07:11 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: An Ode to GPLv2 (was Re: GPLv3 Position Statement)

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

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