[JDEV] GPL Licensing and Clients

[Michael Pence]

Understood.  Obviously, you could script COM objects even from VBA in
Excel (shudder) or using "scriptlets" (double shudder) -- so I don't
see how one could impose usage terms on a COM object, but I just wanted
to make sure.

Thanks,
Mike Pence

--- Thomas Charron <tcharron at ductape.net> wrote:
> > My question regards GPL licensing and the use of, specifically, a
> > GPL'ed COM object by Jabber clients.  Does this GPL license require
> > that all users of the COM object also use a GPL license?
> 
>     Specifically dealing with COM, the application *NEVER* links with
> it.
> It could very well be a stand alone application, and hence, any
> licence on
> the COM component will not affect the end application.  The OS
> marshals
> between the app and COM, so it's not even loaded like a library would
> be.
> 
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