From: Dominik Riebeling <dominik.riebeling_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:50:15 +0200

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 9:59 AM, <mailer_at_svn.rockbox.org> wrote:
> Date: 2010-06-26 09:59:23 +0200 (Sat, 26 Jun 2010)
> New Revision: 27137
>
> Log Message:
> Theme Editor: Added an edit menu with a find/replace function (copied from an LGPL library)
[snip]
> + * This file has been copied from Lorenzo Bettini, with minor modifications
> + * made available under the LGPL version 3, as the original file was licensed

As far as I understand this is a problem: while most Rockbox code and
also the Theme Editor is GPLv2+ that imported code is LGPL3. Unless
that code does allow using it under the terms of the LGPLv2 (or
LGPLv2.1) it is incompatible with the Rockbox license according to
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility (unless we
switch to GPLv3 for at least the Theme Editor).

Is the imported code from http://qtfindreplace.sourceforge.net/ ? If
yes it's definitely (and unfortunately) LGPLv3. Please correct me if
I'm wrong on this topic.


 - Dominik
Received on 2010-06-26