Hi Boris, on his Haifux talk about legal issues, this is a tricky subject. The FSF compliance lab team ( http://www.fsf.org/licensing/team) supplies paid counseling for companies which wish to do what you want. The tricky thing is the intent of the license. As I understand, even if you follow the license to the letter, but not to the spirit, a judge may rule against you in court. I am not saying you can't do this, just that you need to legally verify your steps carefully (linux-il does not count).
Another thing Yoni said is that when you add exceptions etc. to the GPL, you take away freedoms, and it makes GPLv3 null and void. You have a special place where you can add non-legal personal statements, and that's it. Orna. 2009/11/19 Boris Shtrasman <[email protected]> > Howdy , > > I'm a foss developer ,so i prefer to use tested techniques and good > software. > recently i found myself in a problem: > I'm reimplementing good Foss solutions (parts of rsyslog , nmap , etc ... ) > > I can speed up my work (C++ developer) by using allready created GPLv3 and > MIT > software. > > As i see i need to use rsync (any variant) in closed source project in the > next manner: > application A calls rsync to upload to a file to remote server. > (it is GPLv3 license afaik). > > Reading the license i didn't get a definitive answer. > > So when in need to develop with close source what is the way to use GPL > tools > ? > As in plain binaries (no use in source code or source encapsulation). > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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