> i cant include GPL software in my program unless i make my program
> open source. and for me that is restrective because thousands of
> companies produce propriatery software, i am not in the position in my
> company to release the software as open source, and in fact, being a
> small company if a larger company did have the code we would be
> completely sunk. now i cannot use any GPL software in the program but
> i can use LGPL or BSD or MIT software because then i only need make
> that specific portion of the program open source.
So you wish to use source code for which you were given freedom of
use by the author, and not pass on the same freedom to other
users. (It doesn't matter to this whether you do not wish to pass
on that freedom to other people because of good or bad reasons)
_You_ wish to _restrict_ the freedom of other people. The GPL does
not allow that. Which is what I said: The GPL restricts your
freedom to restrict other people's freedom. The BSD license gives
you freedom to restrict other people's freedoms.
In this particular case, you could ask the author of the program
to relicense it for your use only; it sometimes works, especially
if accompanied with a small share of the profit. Otherwise,
providing support for Free software is also quite a good solution
to make money off it. But I guess this isn't quite the thread to
talk about whether one can make money with Free software, and how
:-)
Regards,
-- Jorgen
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