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   Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 04:55:30 JST Drew DeVault

   About the LGPL license of Redict:

   https://redict.io/docs/license/

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 04:55:29 JST Drew DeVault

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     • Shamar

     @Shamar "using LGPL for the distribution of derivative works is not a suggestion but a requirement of the license"

     This is wrong, there are ways to do this without creating a completely LGPL'd derivative work. But they're complicated and I didn't care to explain it on this page, which is made clear by the text.

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     Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 04:55:29 JST Drew DeVault

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     • Shamar

     @Shamar now for the love of god will everyone stop trying to fucking explain how licenses work to me

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     shamar@qoto.org's status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 04:55:30 JST Shamar

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     @drewdevault

     AFAIK any modification to LGPLv3 code must be distributed under LGPLv3.

     The difference with GPL is that you can include or link an unmodified LGPL work into a proprietary software and distribute the whole with a different license.

     But if you modify the LGPL work itself and redistribute it (in binary or source form) you must use the LGPL license as it would obviously be a derivative work.

     Even wikipedia confirms this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License#Differences_from_the_GPL

     Thus you should clarify the related paragraphs: using LGPL for the distribution of derivative works is not a suggestion but a requirement of the license.

     Also, when I talked with a lawyer about a derivative work of a BSD software he explained me that I could distribute my modified version under AGPLv3 because I had introduced and modified several parts and my modification was under GPLv3 so the work as a whole was GPLv3, BUT I could not alter the copyright statements in the files I was copying verbatim from the original BSD project.

     So my suggestion is to talk with a lawyer specialized in sofyware copyright about Redict before distributing Redis code under a different license.