Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gtk+ Commercial Applications (Licencing Issues)
- From: Ian McKellar <yakk-gtk yakk net au>
- To: gtk-list redhat com
- Subject: Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gtk+ Commercial Applications (Licencing Issues)
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:12:28 +0800
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 08:39:40AM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> "Robert G. Brown" wrote:
> > http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/copyleft.html
>
> That's all clear to me, but the initial question was: is linking a
> proprietary program to a GPLed library a "derived work" or is it not? In
> former times I was pretty sure that it is, but I remember a long
> discussion where everybody told me that it is common interpretation of
> the GPL that just linking is _not_ a derived work. Otherwise every
> program that uses kernel functions (which are under the GPL) would have
> to be open sourced and no commercial software would be possible on Linux
> systems.
Just a little reminder that the GPL doesn't forbid commercial software in
any way - just proprietary software.
Ian
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