Follow-up Comment #3, task #5917 (project administration): Hello Brian,
Free Software in itself implies that the program is what people tend to call 'open source software'. >From a legal point of view there are various problems 'linking' (ie. loading a module of) proprietary code into a GPL'ed program. This is strictly forbidden by the GPL itself and hence is a license violation. However, do you really need to dual-license your program? We would really like you to use the 'GPLv2 or later' clause. The main intention behind using this is that it simplifies the process once the GPLv3 is released. This means if you are not using the 'or later' clause, you would have to ask every copyright holder of every piece of sourcecode for permission, which could and for sure would cause problems. If you want to review the draft of the GPLv3, please go to http://gplv3.fsf.org/. Also, if you do have any concerns, feel free to state them. Basically, the GPLv3 is only an update to the GPLv2, keeping the very idea behind the license the same and only rewording or elaborating a bit more on some problems that came up since the relase of version 2 (such as DRM and software patents). Please also have a look at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#VersionTwoOrLater, which contains a lot of information on why we insist on using 'v2 or later'. Now about the legal issues we would be checking for. These include: Checking of both license and copyright header for presence and validity. Checking for presense of the license text of the license used. Basically this is done in order to ensure legal correctness and hence validity. In short it is meant to also ensure that your Free Software program stays such and cannot be made proprietary software due to missing legal correctness of, for example, a copyright header. Last but not least, Tiny-MCE, if licensed under the LGPL, should not pose a problem. I hope this clarifies everything. Regards, Stephan _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5917> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
