Re: VNC licensing request: use in LGPL code

Steve Cheng ()
Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:28:01 -0400 (EDT)

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> Hi Steve,
>
> No, this is a very reasonable request, and we would certainly like to
> encourage your project, but we will need to look into the full implications
> of this.

Thank you very much!

>
> Could you, for now at least, distribute it separately, rather than as part
> of libGGI? Or could we distribute the code as part of VNC? This would stop
> people developing commercial products based on it, but should still be OK
> for everyone else...

I shall do that. Thanks again.

My view of this situation is that a LGPL'd VNC libGGI target is no more
harmful (wrt proprietory developments) than a GPL'd VNC, because changes to
the VNC target itself must be LGPL'd, and linking it with non-free apps is
no different from a GPL'd VNC X server accepting connections from non-free
apps.

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