Re: [Vala] Vala and GLib license

[Aleksandr Palamar <void995 gmail com>]

Jens, do you mean something like linking GLib to your ownn closed source
black box library with open API that is using specific Sony/Microsoft API
inside without revealing those secret internal things to the public?
On Jul 11, 2016 5:50 PM, "Jens Georg" <mail jensge org> wrote:

Yes. Obviously the two licenses are not compatible then. The only way out
there
would be a compatibility layer that translates those runtimes into something
GLib can live with.


Even if that would violate licence from Sony and Microsoft? Obviously,
> sharing that code with someone who already has license from them to
> use their API is not a problem at all. But sharing that code with
> those who don't have such license will put me into trouble with that
> companies, but even if people will have those sources - they are
> useless without previous agreement with Sony/Microsoft and their SDK.
> That's the one of the moments that kind of preventing me to look into
> Vala more seriously in view of professional game development. I never
> know where it will end. The thing is - I have bunch of old code that I
> may to do some refactoring - go from old C code into C++ with bunch of
> own new and old bicycles or just went with Vala step by step, maybe
> even ending with helping community in places where I may be useful.
> But even how much I don't like C++ as the language, at least I know I
> won't have any license headache later. Vala looks way better in
> comparison, but the license of it's core runtime... That was the whole
> point of the subject.
>
> On Jul 11, 2016 5:25 PM, "Jens Georg" <mail jensge org> wrote:
>
> But If I would need to patch GLib to work on PS4 or XBONE? I doubt
> > > that
> > > those platforms will allow me to share usage of their internal
> > > API. Can I
> > > keep those patch closed and share them only with people who has
> > > licenses
> > > for PS4 and XONE (you aren't able to put that patch in anyway if
> > > you are
> > > just standard customer and user of the console and not the
> > > developer) so
> > > they would able to use that new code as well, but not with others,
> > > because
> > > that may violate license of console platforms.
> >
> > No. Because you're patching (L)GPL code you would have to grant
> > access to the modified sources
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