Re: Gtk+ Commercial Applications (Licencing Issues)

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On 5 Oct 1999 19:28:50 -0400, Robert G. Brown <rgb@phy.duke.edu> wrote:

>http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
>
>and read them.
>
>Note well that NONE of the GPL (library or otherwise) versions state
>that you have to release code in which you use GPL programs or link to
>GPL libraries -- after all, how can they do that?  It isn't theirs to
>give away!  Also, what are they going to do, make you set up a website
>for distribution?

You are _still_ confusing the GPL with the LGPL. gtk+ is LGPL'd and doesn't
have the problems of GPL'd libraries.

-- Elliot					http://developer.gnome.org/
The first thing a programmer needs to admit is that any program is by far
more complex than his own mind. Thats why he partitions it into neat
pieces and avoids complexity.