On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 08:51, F J Franklin wrote: > > Just to set the record straight. Any plugin that includes *ANY* of > > abiword's *.h or *.cpp files in it's source code must relicense all it's > > source code as GPL. Brought to you curtesy of Richard Stallman :-) > > *.cpp, yes, but not *.h - but certainly, if the plugins use AbiWord > functionality they need to be GPL compatible. And, of course, proprietary > plugins may be used in-house without license worries; for example, a > company may wish to encrypt/decrypt abiword documents and write a plugin > for this...
.h as well. [rms@roque xp]$ head -7 ap_LB_viEdit_colon.h /* AbiWord * Copyright (C) 1998 AbiSource, Inc. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. for instance. > > BTW if any commercial plugin providers want to distribute abiword (as > > the abiword program) they had better also talk to Eric Sink since > > SourceGear holds the trademark on the name "AbiWord" > I wonder what the implications of this are for OpenOSX's AbiWord... OpenOSX ? Is there an url? www.openosx.org is registered but empty. Hugs, rms -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi + So let's do it...?
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