[opensource-dev] Mesh Source Code ETA

[Carlo Wood]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 08:56:32PM -0400, Zabb65 wrote:
> They have only said they would release source, though they do not have
> to release it. They are doing so out of their own good will as a
> company, not by legal obligation, please remember this. I suspect they

That is not entirely true...
You see, they link the webkit plugin statically with Qt code (LGPL), which
demands that whatever the resulting code is, is GPL or LGPL. So, if they
release a binary that includes a libmedia_plugin_gstreamer.so, which
is linked statically with pure LGPL-ed code, then they are legally
oblidged to provide the source code of libmedia_plugin_gstreamer.so.

Now if LL decides to JUST provide the sources of that plugin lib,
or just put the whole mesh repository that was used to compile it
on the net, is entirely up to them, of course.

-- 
Carlo Wood <carlo at alinoe.com>