[maemo-developers] open source licensing of maemo 5 example code MIT vs GPL

[From: gary liquid]

haha maybe i should have opened my eyes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

/thread before it even started


On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:19 AM, gary liquid <liquid at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>
> I am interested in picking up some of the examples from the maemoexamples
> collection provided by nokia.
> (
> https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/?root=maemoexamples)
>
> When I went looking, I find many are licensed under a permissive MIT
> license.
> this is great and open source friendly, but my application is written under
> the GPL.
>
> I am not a licensing expert, so hopefully one of you guys will be able to
> help.
>
> is it possible to use and embed pieces of these examples into liqbase or
> would they need recreating from scratch?
>
> gary
>
>
> example license:
>
>
> https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/example_desktop_widget/COPYING?revision=259&root=maemoexamples&view=markup
>
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