[JDEV] Question about licensing
Lea Kissner
chialea at uclink4.berkeley.edu
Fri Oct 8 01:39:10 CDT 1999
if I remember correctly, you may dynamically link against the code, but
not statically. (of course, I got this impression off of /., so take that
as you will...)
Lea
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Scott Robinson wrote:
> Ow. I didn't recall this. Where in the GPL is this stated? I have a could
> problems with this on the fact that many commerical programs use libc6.
>
> Either way, I there is always the LGPL. (though I could have sworn the only
> difference was DERIVITIVE code only.)
>
> Scott.
>
> * Daniel Arbuckle translated into ASCII [Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:42:38AM -0700][<Pine.LNX.4.10.9910070039030.10334-100000 at wvc-omak.ctc.edu>]
> > Actually, If your code uses a library under GPL, then your code has to be
> > GPL too. If we don't want to put this restriction on our users, we have to
> > explicityl state that "As an exception to the terms of this license, you
> > may link non-GPL code against this library." Or something simial. IANAL.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Scott Robinson wrote:
> > > * Benjamin Holzman translated into ASCII [Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:52:55PM -0400][<37FB9A87.2B431D35 at orientation.com>]
> > > > 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.
> >
> >
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