[theora-dev] Licenses GPL and LGPL

[Ralph Giles]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:01 AM, o e <oooooooo8 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I would like to use com.fluendo.plugin and com.fluendo.jheora which are LGPL, but the problem is that they use some classes from com.fluendo.jst and com.fluendo.utils that have a GPL license at the beginning of the file. I think that if you need a single GPL file to compile a LGPL library, the whole must be released under the GPL (and cannot be released under the LGPL), am I right?

That is correct. Well, the LGPL portions remain LGPL, but the
aggregate must be treated as if it were GPL.

> Could someone confirm the current license of these files? (according to the Copyright should be Fluendo S.L.)

I believe the licensing is as intended. I don't know whether they'd be
willing to change the jst portions. The C version is LGPL. Thomas?

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