On 2009-12-10, benedicte jourdain <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > IANAL, but I think there are only three legal ways to use GPL licensed > code > > > > (1) Do what ever you want but do *NOT* distribute the code at all > > (2) License derivative work under GPL and distribute > > (3) License your code under your favorite license, distribute (in > > source form) without GPL code and let end-user to download GSL, > > compile it, compile your code and link it all together. This is the > > worst distribution method for the reasons that are quite obvious. > > > IMHO, your method (3) is not correct at all. please have a look on last > lines of GPL > I think copyright include function names, algo details and even names of > variables so, with GPL, you can NOT use them in a non GPL compatible source > code. > > But I want to say that the ideas (algo) are completely free. > > a+ > Marc Jourdain >
Linux kernel is GPLv2. Yet there are many proprietary closed source drivers that that link with it without license violations. _______________________________________________ Help-gsl mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gsl
