On 10-May-2000 Raul Miller wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 12:05:06AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >> If I write a program that links to a GPL'ed library, what licenses may I >> use? >> Am I "stuck" with the GPL? > > You can use anything that isn't more restrictive than the GPL. [However, > as long as your program incorporates GPLed code, distribution of the > binaries -- or any other form of the whole thing, like the complete > source -- must happen under GPLed terms.] > > So, you could use the BSD or X licenses for example. In either of these > cases the license on the code you would write could become proprietary, > but until the GPLed code is replaced you couldn't actually have working > copies of the proprietary code. > > Is that what you're trying to do? [Use GPLed libs in the development > of code that can become proprietary?] >
No, I am not writing proprietary code. Never have, hope I never will. The situation is this: there is a bsd licensed library I am helping to create (existing code was bsd and other authors want to keep it that way). I want to write an application that uses this library and a GPL'ed library. My goal was to license my app under the BSD and I wanted to ensure that I was able to and not see the "viral" side of the GPL.
