Is there a case study where an "API" (please note the use of " ")
from a non-GPL to GPL was successfully defended?
not particularly in court but also in a public knowledge
settlement out of court.
What is the closest one ("API") to the code?
using sockets? some kind of pipes? files? etc...
Regards,
tzahi.
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: GPL and commercial application
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>
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004, Anatoly Vorobey wrote about "Re: GPL
> and commercial application":
> > You're free to license your derived work under any license you want,
> > restrictive as it may be, as long as you *also* license it
> under the
> > terms of the GPL. That is not an academic distinction;
> quite a few companies
> > make their living upon it (offering various products under
> commercial
> > licenses as well as the GPL, with the commercial license offering
> > additional benefits for the client).
>
> You are forgetting one important thing: you can only
> relicense the parts of the software that you own the
> copyright for! Let me give you an example of a relicense you
> cannot do.
>
> Let's say that product XYZ is GPL. You create an improved
> version, and call it XYZ++, and release it under the GPL.
> Now, a client of yours wants to buy the rights to XYZ++ which
> will allow them to make their own changes it and to sell the
> resulting product without its source. You simply cannot sell
> these rights to them! The GPL, the license of the original
> program XYZ, does not allow you do to that. The fact that you
> also release XYZ++ under the GPL doesn't help you.
>
>
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