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Choosing between portability and innovation

Choosing between portability and innovation

Posted Mar 2, 2011 19:33 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Choosing between portability and innovation by vonbrand
Parent article: Choosing between portability and innovation

X.org is MIT/BSD, so no license problems. GNOME is LGPL - also fairly acceptable.


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Choosing between portability and innovation

Posted Mar 2, 2011 20:05 UTC (Wed) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

MIT/BSD is acceptable for GPL types (like Linux), but not the other way around.

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