Hi Tomas, > even though pil21 is MIT licensed, the GPL dependency makes the combined > work GPL licensed > > if i understand the raised issue correctly, alex wants the combined work > to be MIT licensed, which means pil21 cannot depend on GPL software
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 09:08:32AM +0100, Tomas Hlavaty wrote: > the question is: does pil21 depend on GPL software? if yes, the > combined work has GPL licence. if not, pil21 has MIT licence. if you Yes, I want pil21 as a piece be completely "free", in the spirit of MIT. But you focus on the term "depend" / "dependency". >From what I underseod so far, the GPL is all about "distributing". PicoLisp >does *not* distribute any GPLed code (neither source nor binary), but "uses" what it finds on the target system at runtime and just *calls* it by creating a dynamic link. Am I wrong? ☺/ A!ex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
