Re: Gnome GPL question

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org> writes:

> "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.

>From gnome-libs/README

===
   The GNOME libraries (libgnome, libgnomeui, gtk-xmhtml, zvt, vfs)
are released under the terms of the LGPL license, read the file
COPYING.LIB for more information.
===

                                        Owen