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

[From: Joaquim Rocha]

Like Murray said, you can use MIT code with your GPL code.

When dealing with licensing issues, if your application is GPL licensed
you should look for the GPL-compatible licenses list:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

Cheers,

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Joaquim Rocha

Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 11:19 +0000, gary liquid wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Yes, this license is chosen to pretty much let you do whatever you like
> with the example code.
>