Quoting Gilad Ben-Yossef, from the post of Mon, 30 Dec: > > The question to be answered is whether or not the closed programs is a > derivative of the GPLed one. The GPL states that a program that is > linked against a GPLed program is considered a derivative program, so > according to the GPL you only get legal rights to use the GPLed program > if you offer the previously closed source program under the GPL license > when you distribute it.
not at all. that's why I said - the source is not touched and the binaries are delivered in a separate (original?) JAR file. to explain - I'm looking into running the Jcraft "WeirdX" Xserver applet as a pane inside a Java application rather than embedded in a webpage. so... is that legal or not...? -- Big in Japan Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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