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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 05:34 AM EDT |
If the GPL is what you want then that is what you should use. As the copyright
holder you can add a special exception that allows linking to non-GPL code. See
the OpenSSL exception and the GNU classpath exception for examples.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: scav on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 05:43 AM EDT |
Actually, I'm not sure it is even a problem. Is there a
reason why a GPL program cannot link to non-free libraries?
You can't distribute a non-free program linked to GPL
libraries, but is that actually the same thing? After all,
there are a lot of GPL programs ported to Windows, and they
presumably link to various non-free DLLs.
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- LGPL - Authored by: hardmath on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 08:21 AM EDT
- LGPL - Authored by: greed on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 05:14 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Saturday, June 16 2012 @ 07:15 AM EDT |
Multimedia on the Raspberry Pi sounds interesting. Can you
tell me what kind
of graphics processor it has? Can you tell
me what kind of audio interface it
has? On board sound card?
Video memory? I'm wondering if the Raspberry Pi could
become
a multimedia platform. That certainly would be fun to play
with. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 19 2012 @ 12:29 AM EDT |
Since it would only be useful on the raspberry pi, do you really have to worry
about it being co-opted in closed source software? Why would it be such a big
deal if someone did use it in an application sold for the raspberry pi?
Personally I think that open source is great, but there's no battle going on
between closed source and open. There are some former software giants
struggling to find relevance in the OSS world, but that's no reason to think
that all closed source apps are bad. Preventing a library from being used in a
closed-source app will only ensure that the closed-source apps that do come out
are more expensive, and therefore make the hardware less useful. Just IMO... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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