Subject: Re: libfdt: going forward for u-boot

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:16:09 +0100

>> One thought that occurred to me since we last discussed this is to
>> relicense it LGPL.  That way it could be linked into proprietary code
>> without having to maintain a dual license and the copyright assignment
>> headaches that come with outside contributors.
>
> Heh.  The lawyers suggested that too, but I talked them out of it.
> The trouble with LGPL is that to satisfy its conditions you need to be
> pretty careful about how you link things together.

Yeah, the LGPL is even more work for lawyers than the GPL.

You could try a BSD- or MIT-style license perhaps, those
are *really* easy to understand, even to lawyers :-)

Segher