From: Ian Collier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 05:59:33PM -0700, Simon Cooke wrote:
> > However, there's no
> > restriction on GPL'd programs relying on other libraries which are not
> > GPL'd - it's just a matter of taste.
>
> Permission to copy and distribute a GPLd program is conditional upon
> distributing the entire source code of the program. Including any
libraries
> and anything else which forms part of the program. ("However, as a
special
> exception, the source code distributed need not include anything that is
> normally distributed (in either source or binary form) with the major
> components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the operating system on
> which the executable runs, unless that component itself accompanies
> the executable.")
Term 0 is the most important one here:
0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains a notice
placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed under the terms
of this General Public License. The "Program", below, refers to any such
program or work, and a "work based on the Program" means either the Program
or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work
containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with
modifications and/or translated into another language. (Hereinafter,
translation is included without limitation in the term "modification".) Each
licensee is addressed as "you".
Aley's sound code is not a library that forms a "part" of the program, as
it's possible to run the program without the DLL.
Admittedly it's a grey area though.
Simon
