On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:51:17PM +0200, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> 2014-05-11 16:20 GMT+02:00 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
> >
> > The Mantis entry has links to the earlier discussions, so there is a good
> > summary of the issues there. I do not know what the detailed plan should be
> > but I think that we need two things:
> >
> > 1) Some platforms, probably including some unix platforms, need to use the
> > old jpeg library code that we keep in
> > platforms/Cross/plugins/JPEGReadWriter2Plugin.
> > This must continue to work for the platforms that require it.
> >
> > 2) Other platforms, especially Linux distributions, would prefer to link
> > directly to the jpeg runtime library provided by the operating system.
> >
> > There should be no GPL issues because linking to a runtime libjpeg is no
> > different from linking to any other runtime library on Linux.
> >
> >
> Beware, this is why LGPL was created for, no?
> But GPL is different from LGPL.
> I don't feel like reading those licenses again, it's just too boring, so
> someone should confirm that:
> link with GPL and you become GPL, it's viral.
> 

Good catch. I don't know if it is a problem in this case, but I added a note
to the Mantis issue so we do not forget to check.

Thanks,
Dave