Hello Subject says it all... I'm working for an Institute/Company which does scientific and medical imaging software. We have some OpenSource-Addicts in the house (with me as the most addicted...) and try to bring at least some of our software to the OpenSource-World. Now there is our "Premium"-Software, that will stay closed source for long time (although we try our best to convince the others...). If we can not release the software under the GPL, we like to release at least some of it's modules under the GPL.
The software does not really need those modules, so it is not dependend on them. The modules (there are hundreds of them) are loaded at runtime, not statically linked. Can I write a module, using the proprietary API of the software and release it under the GPL? The GPL-modules would be available as precompiled module for Windows/Linux/MacOSX and as source. I like to pack them into the commercial installer (including the source of the module, of course) also, but this is not required. Is this possible without violating GPL, or is there no way to "undermine" the closed-source-philosophy step-by-step...? Regards Stephan _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
