On Jan 14, 2:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Jan 14, 1:30 pm, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Spenceee writes: > > > My interpretation of the GPL is that if we were to use a GNU public > > > license piece of software in our application (Sumatra PDF reader is the > > > software in question) then we would be required to distribute ALL the > > > source code for our software? > > > Depends on the details. What do you mean by "use"? What do you mean by > > "in"? Is "our software" a monolithic application? A client and server? A > > group of cooperating processes? A program and a bunch of utilities? > > -- > > John Hasler > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Dancing Horse Hill > > Elmwood, WI USA > > Really appreciate the reply! > > The application is part of a client server solution. It would be the > client, and the user would double click on a PDF document, which would > then launch the PDF viewer using the GPLv2 code. Optimally we would > want this to be compiled in as a DLL used by our application, but if > the GPL wouldn't permit this, we could launch it from the command > line, and provide tools for the user to do this also, perhaps with a > quick splash acknowledging the authors and GPL etc.
I just reread that and realised it wasn't quite clear. Our application, (the client part) has a list of documents in it, which the users can double click. We would like the double click to open a piece of software (currently a hosted adobe reader, which is slow, terrible and has a multitude of issues), and replace this with the GPL sumatra code. Our application would "launch" the GPL code section, but do nothing else than use it. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
