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The GNOME Mobile & Embedded InitiativeThe GNOME Mobile & Embedded InitiativePosted Apr 19, 2007 19:10 UTC (Thu) by atai (subscriber, #10977)Parent article: The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative
Not GNOME LGPL license, but the GNU LGPL license, right?
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The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative Posted Apr 19, 2007 20:27 UTC (Thu) by Lucas (guest, #31413) [Link] They probably wanted to mean that Gnome used the LGPL for all of its codebase.
The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative Posted Apr 20, 2007 1:17 UTC (Fri) by newren (guest, #5160) [Link] Not all GNOME projects are distributed under the LGPL. LGPL is a requirement for modules wanting to be considered a GNOME platform library, but most GNOME apps are GPL.
The GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative Posted Apr 19, 2007 20:34 UTC (Thu) by xtifr (subscriber, #143) [Link] It's both (or either), depending on how you look at it. To put it in programmatic terms, the GNU license is the class; the GNOME license is the instance. Anyway, the "G" in GNOME stands for "GNU", and the GNOME project is loosely under the wing of the GNU project (though not, as I understand it, under the control of the FSF). From http://www.gnome.org/about/ : "GNOME is Free Software and part of the GNU project [...]"
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