I hope this isn't an inappropriate message here. I wasn't able to find a FAQ for this newsgroup. Please let me know if there's a more appropriate group.
Where I work, we are considering using a small piece of the JIDE Common Layer Open Source Project (https://jide-oss.dev.java.net/). It's under a dual GPL/Commerical license. The second FAQ in the link above states: <quote> 2. If I modify your source code to fix a bug or add an enhancement, should I contribute the change back to you? As a matter of fact, you must contribute the changes back to us either [sic] you choose GPL or free commercial license to comply with the license agreements. </quote> This is not my understanding of the GPL. This link http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic seems to contradict JIDE's answer. If our changes are only used internally, we do not have to give them back to JIDE. Is this a correct reading? Actually, we're just tweaking the code a bit (changing it's package mostly) so they really wouldn't want our changes anyway. A related question. We also occasionally give out our source code to other companies. We do give them all the source. Does this require us to give back changes to JIDE? I think the answer is no. Thanks, Paul _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
