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Subject: Re : Re: NetworkManagerQt
From: Carl Schwan <carl () carlschwan ! eu>
Date: 2022-05-27 21:11:08
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Le vendredi 27 mai 2022 à 10:03 PM, Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fella@gmx.de> a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On 27/05/2022 17:35, Kovour, Sathyanarayana wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > My name is Sathya Kovour, I am part of Baxter International, a medical device \
> > manufacturer.
> > We come across NetworkManagerQt \
> > https://marketplace.qt.io/products/networkmanagerqt, and we have a few questions \
> > while we are making decision to use this very convenient modules in our project.
> > - As per above link this project is accessible for us with LGPL v2.1+. According \
> > to our legal department this is very restrictive for our distribution scenarios. \
> > I am wondering if you offer any additional licenses for this project to be used \
> > in our commercial setup without copy left clause.
>
> The short answer is: No.
>
> The longer answer is: To do this one would need to contact all of the \
> contributors/copyright holders and ask them to agree to a new license. That is \
> doable in theory but prohibitively difficult in practice.
In adition to that Nicolas already said, you might want to double check if the LGPL \
2.1 license is really to restrictive for your distributions scenarios. The LGPL 2.1 \
is more permissive than the normal GPL 2 and the LGPL 3 and as been specially be \
developed to be integrated inside proprietary projects.
I'm not a layer, but the key requirement for the LGPL 2.1 license is that you link \
the library with your project using dynamic linking, add a link to the source code \
and if you do modification to the library, you also need to publish your modification \
to the library. The rest of your project is not affected by the copy left clause.
I hope this helps,
Cheers,
Carl
> > I understand Linux Network Manager 1.16 support WPA3, does NetworkManagerQt \
> > enables us to use WPA3 capabilities if we have a compatible network manager \
> > installed on our embedded system?
>
> Without knowing all of the details I'd say: yes, probably. And even if there are \
> missing things for this in networkmanager-qt those should be easy enough to add.
> > A quick reply is highly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Sathya
>
> Cheers
>
> Nicolas
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Le vendredi 27 mai 2022 Ã 10:03 PM, Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fella@gmx.de> a \
écrit :<br><div class="protonmail_quote"><br> <blockquote class="protonmail_quote" \
type="cite">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,<br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><br>
</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/05/2022 17:35, Kovour,
Sathyanarayana wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">My name is Sathya Kovour, I am part of
Baxter International, a medical device manufacturer.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We come across NetworkManagerQt <a \
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" \
href="https://marketplace.qt.io/products/networkmanagerqt" rel="noreferrer nofollow \
noopener" target="_blank"> https://marketplace.qt.io/products/networkmanagerqt</a>, \
and we have a few questions while we are making decision to use
this very convenient modules in our project.</p>
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<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" \
class="MsoListParagraph">As per above link this project is accessible for us with \
LGPL v2.1+. According to our legal department this is very restrictive
for our distribution scenarios. I am wondering if you offer
any additional licenses for this project to be used in our
commercial setup without copy left clause.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p>The short answer is: No.<br>
</p>
<p>The longer answer is: To do this one would need to contact all of
the contributors/copyright holders and ask them to agree to a new
license. That is doable in theory but prohibitively difficult in
practice.</p></blockquote><p style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: \
rgb(34, 34, 34);">In adition to that Nicolas already said, you might want to double \
check if the LGPL 2.1 license is really to restrictive for your distributions \
scenarios. The LGPL 2.1 is more permissive than the normal GPL 2 and the LGPL 3 and \
as been specially be developed to be integrated inside proprietary \
projects.<br></p><p style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, \
34);">I'm not a layer, but the key requirement for the LGPL 2.1 license is that you \
link the library with your project using dynamic linking, add a link to the source \
code and if you do modification to the library, you also need to publish your \
modification to the library. The rest of your project is not affected by the copy \
left clause.</p><p style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(34, 34, \
34);">I hope this helps,<br></p><p style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: \
rgb(34, 34, 34);">Cheers,</p><p style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; color: \
rgb(34, 34, 34);">Carl<br></p><blockquote class="protonmail_quote" type="cite"><p> \
</p> <blockquote type="cite">
<div class="WordSection1">I understand Linux Network Manager 1.16
support WPA3, does NetworkManagerQt enables us to use WPA3
capabilities if we have a compatible network manager installed
on our embedded system?</div>
</blockquote>
Without knowing all of the details I'd say: yes, probably. And even
if there are missing things for this in networkmanager-qt those
should be easy enough to add.<br>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A quick reply is highly appreciated.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sathya</p>
</div>
</blockquote>
<p>Cheers</p>
<p>Nicolas<br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
</blockquote><br>
</div>
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