[JDEV] Question about licensing

[Scott Robinson]

Heh, I'm making them tonight. =p

Scott.

* Eliot Landrum translated into ASCII [Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 04:20:32AM +0000][<199910070421.XAA29122 at mw2.texas.net>]
> 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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