Paul McNett wrote: > Ed Leafe wrote: >> On Jan 23, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Paul McNett wrote: >> >>> I meant: why can't Nate's serial debugging tool be part of DaboDemo? >>> There's no reason for Dabo or DaboDemo to distribute serial. >> Depends on your legal interpretations. If you write code that links >> to a GPL library, there are many schools of thought (read: MySQL) >> that considers that sufficient to require all your code to be GPL'd. > > What do you mean by "link"? I haven't heard anyone say that merely > having code that is meant to be linked to a GPL program at runtime is > enough to GPL your own code. If that were true, MySQLdb would be GPL'd > because it "links" to MySQL, and hence Dabo would be GPL'd because it > links to MySQLdb. > >
Dabo isn't using the MySQLdb connector to make it work. If MySQLdb would be used for the preferences instead of sqlite, dabo had to be GPL. Redistribution of GPL connectors would also violate the GPL. Uwe _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev
