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

[From: gary liquid]

heh
i answered this myself almost as soon as I asked.


im embarrassed it got brought back up, but thankful to you both for
reaffirming it
the licenses are indeed compatible and its a great thing :)

oss ftw!

the examples are kickass, thanks to all for putting them together, any
chance they be compiled up and made available into the repo so people can
just play and experiment even before they have setup full devkit :)

is that required/worth doing?

gary


On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Joaquim Rocha <jrocha at igalia.com> wrote:

> 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,
>
> --
> 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.
> >
>
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