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agalin avatar agalin commented on June 9, 2024
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Agalin avatar Agalin commented on June 9, 2024

If I understand licenses correctly, GPL code can be used with any GPL-ompatible license. And GNU lists BSD (edit. 2: BSD 2-clause is listed as FreeBSD) as GPL-compatible. But I'm not a lawyer and if you have any sources that explain this, then I'll change license.

Edit. Pidgin itself says that plugin license should be GPL-compliant, not exactly GPL.

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kgraefe avatar kgraefe commented on June 9, 2024

According to GNU compatible means that you can combine code released under the other license with code released under the GNU GPL in one larger program [...] provided the combination is released under the same GNU GPL version.

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Agalin avatar Agalin commented on June 9, 2024

And BSD allows that. It's actually MORE open than GNU/GPL.
Combination in this case is Pidgin bundled with plugin - and BSD licensed plugin can be freely merged into GPL code.

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Agalin avatar Agalin commented on June 9, 2024

I think that this FAQ entry describes situation best. Plugin is an additional module and 2-clause BSD is compliant as more lax so it can be used there.

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kgraefe avatar kgraefe commented on June 9, 2024

Sorry for wasting your time then ❤️

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Agalin avatar Agalin commented on June 9, 2024

No problem, I'm never sure about those. THat's one of the reasons I'm not a fan of GPL - license cooperation.

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