[geos-devel] Boost License compatibility

[Paul Ramsey]

Since you're talking about taking a small snippet of LGPL and putting
it into a larger chunk of Boost, probably you will get no definitive
answer, since it hinges on whether your new combined result is a
"derived work" (in which case it's LGPL) or not (in which case it can
be Boost).  The "safe" black-and-white answer is that combining
anything from a *GPL project with another compatibly-licensed project
creates a *GPL resultant.

P.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
> Chris Hodgson wrote:
>> But don't forget to read:
>>
>> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesCompatMean
>>
>>
>> It seems their definition of compatibility only refers to the ability
>> to combine the code, without reference to what license the resulting
>> code could possibly be released under.
>
> "It means that the other license and the GNU GPL are compatible; you can
> combine code released under the other license with code released
> under the GNU GPL in one larger program"
>
> It helps, but not much :-)
>
> It's still unclear if I must release the "larger program" under the
> terms of GPL or I can release it under the terms of the "other license"
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
> Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
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