Re: GTK+/Glade License

[G Hasse <gh raditex se>]

On 14 Feb 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Stephane Duguay <sduguay Matrox COM> writes:
> > Do I have to release the source of my free, but commercial,
> > software.
>
> No. Only if you include GPL code in your program, or link to a GPL
> library. LGPL is OK to link to, but has special requirements if you
> statically link, and you can't cut-and-paste the code into your
> program.  (But this is not legal advice, you should ask a lawyer...)

I have talked to several lawyer about this. They all basicly say that

"If you have given something away" you can't have oppinion about
how it is used. No leagal court would ever defend that.

That could lead to interesting situations. ;-)

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Many commercial firms have recognised this and there is a lot of
Linux systems around that nobody know about. We are involved in
serveral sutch projects.

Göran

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