[JDEV] Question about licensing

[Eliot Landrum]

I will make apropriate changes tomorrow (Thursday, Oct 7).

On Wed, 06 Oct 1999, Benjamin Holzman wrote:
> 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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> |        Ben Holzman                       bah at orientation.com       |
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