svox pico issues

[William Hubbs]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 07:13:23PM +0200, Boris Dusek wrote:
> 
> On Sep 29, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Andrei Kholodnyi wrote:
> 
> >> What license is the svox pico library released under?  Is it ok for our
> >> code that links with it to be gpl, or should we use lgpl?
> > 
> > Pico license is http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
> > I do not see any problems with having SPD pico module GPLv2
> 
> I remember that GPLv3 introduced compatibility with Apache license, which
> would imply GPLv2 is incompatible with Apache license. See more at
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
> 
> But I do not really understand much about copyright and don't know what
> exactly compatibility or incompatibility of the 2 licenses means, just
> raising this so that it is not overlooked.

In the interest of being cautious, because of this, I would prefer to
use LGPL like some of our other modules.

Is this ok Andrei?

Thanks,

William

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