Re: Gnome GPL question

[Preben Randhol <randhol pvv org>]

"Poletti, Don" <don.poletti@comverse-in.com> writes:

| Here's a "nuance" of the GPL I don't understand.
| 
| Linux is GPLed (the kernel and other supporting executables) but it anyone
| can
| write any kind of application, commercial, freeware shareware etc. to run
| on Linux. I thought it might be because the linux code was not linked in but
| don't all executables libc and other libraries?

Read the beginning of /usr/src/linux/COPYING 

| Where does Gnome fall? Is it a violation of its GPL to write a commercial or
| shareware
| Gnome app?

As long as you don't distribute your code under GPL, it would seem so
as the libs are GPL and not LGPL as GTK+ is.

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