[JDEV] Question about licensing

[Benjamin Holzman]

Good. Is the FAQ going to change to reflect this?

Scott Robinson wrote:
> 
> Interleaved response.
> 
> Scott.
> 
> * Benjamin Holzman translated into ASCII [Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:52:55PM -0400][<37FB9A87.2B431D35 at orientation.com>]
> > It appears from this statement in the FAQ:
> >
> > 5.2 What License is Jabber covered under?
> >
> > The Jabber project consists of various different teams producing code
> > for different aspects. Each team has chosen the appropriate license for
> > the code they are producing. The core of the project, including the
> > library efforts, servers, modules, protocol, and transports, is all
> 
> The _protocol_ is not under GPL.
> 
> > being developed and released under the GPL. You can find a copy of the
> > GPL at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.
> >
> > that if I pay for a client application to be built to the specification
> > in the documentation, all of the code in that client would need to be
> > released under GPL as well.  Is this actually true?  Also, would it be
> > mitigated if the code in the client which actually talks the jabber
> > protocol exists as a separate library, distributed under GPL?
> >
> 
> In short, if you write something that speaks the Jabber protocol it does not
> have to be GPL. If you write a program using derivitive code that is GPL'ed,
> your code must be GPL'ed. However, you can write a program that uses a
> GPL'ed library without the program needing to be under the GPL.
> 
> > Ben
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