> IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that if you use GPLed code (unless you're > the original author or obtained a non-GPL license from the copyright > holder, which is of course possible) then everything you distribute > with it must be GPL or a compatible license. That means that the > source code must be made available (the library you used plus your > own). ...
Thanks for the replies. I've no problem giving my client source code - it is usually in the contract anyway. The key question for me is whether my client then has to pass it on to its customers (99%+ of whom would rather put their hand in a piranha fish tank than be given computer code). Thinking about it some more I think I can use the GCC compiler as a precedent: it takes my proprietary code and open source libraries and produces an EXE. Even though GCC is GPL I'm free to sell that EXE and don't have to tell people it was made with GCC or those other libraries. I believe this is valid as long as the libraries are LGPL or BSD/MIT. And from what I've read so far MPL is also okay. GPL libraries have to be avoided. Is that about right? And is it reasonable to consider an SWF equivalent to an EXE? Darren _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
