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Community contributions and copyright assignment

Posted Oct 28, 2009 18:02 UTC (Wed) by juliank (subscriber, #45896)
Parent article: Community contributions and copyright assignment

Canonical seems to provide Bazaar under different licenses as well, if
needed, which may include proprietary ones, see http://bazaar-
vcs.org/BzrFeatures.

Upstart can only be licensed under GPL-compatible terms, since it links
with udev, as far as I can tell. Most of the other projects (those using
APT, e.g. via python-apt) can also be only licensed under the GPL because
APT and python-apt are GPL-licensed.

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Posted Oct 28, 2009 18:05 UTC (Wed) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link]

libudev is LGPL, so that does not mean that the linking program has to be released under the GPL.

Community contributions and copyright assignment

Posted Oct 28, 2009 18:27 UTC (Wed) by juliank (subscriber, #45896) [Link]

Yes, I see. The Ubuntu package simply stated in debian/copyright that the
whole of udev is licensed under the GPL; so this is a packaging bug. Thanks
for correcting me.

Community contributions and copyright assignment

Posted Oct 28, 2009 20:51 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

Evidently the Ubuntu version of udev is straight GPL, until they change it.