(L)GPL code in MIT licensed product. Is it legal?

[nexos]

Hello,
In my bootloader, the ELF structures I obtained have been taken from glibc. My project is licensed under the MIT license. Since glibc is LGPL licensed, is it within the license for me to integrate this code into my project?
Thanks,
nexos

[Korona]

AFAIU (IANAL) that this is legal but results in a GPL-licensed product.

That being said, ELF structs are unlikely to be considered IP of glibc.

[nexos]

OK, makes sense. In the open source world, the GPL family seems to be more of a stumbling block then help. That is why I switched to the MIT license.

[PeterX]

OK, makes sense. In the open source world, the GPL family seems to be more of a stumbling block then help. That is why I switched to the MIT license.

Well, this is a matter of opinion. some people like the other extreme (PD/CC0) and some like that their work can't be used in more unfree software, so they use GPL/AGPL. Some like more in the middle between this extremes (like MIT/Expat License and others).

BTW Bruce Perens recommends to reduce the licenses to three:
- For permissive terms: Apache 2.0 License
- For intermediate terms: LGPL
- For copyleft terms: AGPL

https://licenseuse.org/

No need to mention that licenses are a very hotly debated thing.

Greetings
Peter