Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gtk+ Commercial Applications (Licencing Issues)



"Robert G. Brown" <rgb@phy.duke.edu> writes:

| On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Rob Huffstedtler wrote:
| 
| > You need to reread the GPL.  The reason the LGPL used to be called the
| > Library GPL was so that you could link proprietary apps against it.  YOU 
| > CAN NOT LINK A NON-FREE (SPEECH) APP AGAINST A GPL'ED LIB.  For
| > instance, you cannot link a proprietary app against libgtop.  If you
| > don't believe me, tool on over to www.fsf.org and reread the licenses.
| 
| Not to pick a nit, but of course you can.  You just cannot sell it.

I thought you had to release to code...

-- 
Preben Randhol     [randhol@pvv.org]    [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/] 
 "If you had just boarded an airliner and discovered that your team 
  of programmers had been responsible for the flight control software, 
  how many of you would disembark immediately?"             -- unknown



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