Uwe Grauer wrote: > 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
Something for reading: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html Uwe _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev
