LGPLv2 and GPLv2 licenses of freeradius-server-src-lib.

Alan DeKok aland at deployingradius.com
Thu May 12 09:26:53 CEST 2011


Raja Sekhar Manchikalapudi wrote:
> While browsing the code in the distribution of the free-radius server,
> have observed that the .../src/lib folder (files like radius.c) is
> licensed under LGPLv2 where as its corresponding header files
> (specifically libradius.h) are licensed with GPLv2 ?
> 
> This kind of different licensing for the same library is done with
> purpose ? I was thinking the header files required for the library also
> to be available under LGPLv2 ... Can somebody clarify how to use the
> LGPLv2 source (library) with out violating the licensing ?

  The library is LGPL.  2.1.11 contains updates to make this clearer.

  Alan DeKok.



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