--- "K.S. Bhaskar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg -- > > There is a lot of unnecessary fear of the GPL out there, and there > are > many misconceptions put about by those whose code is not open source > free software.
And I certainly do not mean to add to it. > > Aggregating GPL'd code does not force the aggregated code to be > GPL'd. > Thus, non-open / non-free operating systems like AIX and HP-UX have > long > included GPL'd packages like emacs as part of their distributions. I'm not sure I know what "aggregating" means here. It seems to be one thing when you bundle software with an operating system, but other scenarios seem less clear (such as including a SAX implementation as part of a device supporting web services, but not making the software visible as separate files within the OS). > > Simple dynamic linking with GPL'd code does not force the linking > code > to be GPL'd. This permits non-GPL'd packages like Java and Oracle to > run on a GPL'd operating system such as GNU/Linux. I actually didn't know that. > > Static linking with GPL'd code (e.g., combining within a shared > library > or an executable file image) does force the linking code to be GPL'd > (or > made available under a GPL compatible license). > Right. And dynamic linking is becoming the rule, not the exception. > There certainly is a grey area between static linking and dynamic > linking. Right. > > Apropos GT.M, I have clarified our position on comp.lang.mumps as far > back as 2001/2002 and I believe also on this list at some point in > the > past. You can use GT.M (binaries distributed by us or source code > that > you compile yourself to recreate GT.M) without your code being > affected > by linking to GPL'd code. Your code can be in M, C, or whatever. > But > if you modify GT.M source code, or use parts of GT.M source code in > your > application, then your changes are affected by the GPL that GT.M is > distributed under. In other words, if you use GT.M as GT.M, your > code > is not affected by our GPL. I can understand that Sanchez/Fidelity may not object to the code being used this way, but it is less clear to me that this is covered by the license -- but I am certainly not a lawyer! > > If the above still doesn't address your specific concern, please > contact > me directly for an answer. Oh...okay. I'll write to you off-line. > > Regards > -- Bhaskar > === Gregory Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Interaction is the mind-body problem of computing." --Philip L. Wadler ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
