Fwd: Re: JD GTK+ license violation

[Mukund Sivaraman <muks banu com>]

The author has agreed to release his program as a dynamically linked
binary from its next version. The license issue then will be settled. I
have asked him to not worry about pulling the current binaries as this
is temporary until he releases the next version.

		Mukund

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• From: Mukund Sivaraman <muks banu com>
• To: jd offline <jd offline gmail com>
• Subject: Re: JD GTK+ license violation
• Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:28:23 +0000

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:58:16PM +0100, jd offline wrote:
> Hello Mukund,
> 
> First, thanks for your mail. It's important for me to work in
> legality. Next, as you suggest, the next release of JD-GUI will be
> linked dynamically to GTK+.
> 
> The next release will be ready in 2/3 weeks. Do I stop to offer
> jd-gui-0.2.8.linux.i686.tar.gz rigth now ?
> 

Hi Daniel

My email was not to stop you from distributing your project :) You know
how how to comply with the license now, and you are thinking of
releasing the next version of JD-GUI correctly, so don't worry about
the current version violating the license as it's temporary.

Btw, I'm a developer and I really don't care to spend time telling
people about licensing. JD appeared to be a nice program, so I thought
I'd send you a mail.

Dynamically linking to GTK+ is actually good for your program, as if
there any security related issues in GTK+, the distribution supplied
update will fix the system-wide library. Some versions of GTK+ are also
customized by distributions to incorporate more features such as custom
file chooser dialogs, etc., which will appear in dynamically linked
programs. If I were you, I'd ship the program as an RPM or deb package
for the popular Linux distributions.

		Mukund

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