From: Maury Markowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm curious about using GPL'ed software in a supporting role for
non-GLP software. Let's say YoyoDyne takes the Debian installer
verbatum and uses it to install the next version of their propietary
InternetDestructor 5.x. Is this legally
On 10-Jun-99, 21:39 (CDT), Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Maury Markowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If YoyoDyne wants to put a GUI wrapper around the dpkg, what then?
Does making a GUI wrapper for the product become a case of
incorporating it into a propietary system?
A non-GPL
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 00:22:37 -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
Really? If I write a GUI that uses dpkg *only* via
'system(dpkg --command arg);'
that would be a derived work?
A similar discussion comes up on gnu.misc.discuss regularly regarding
linking against a GPLed library like readline
Steve Greenland writes:
Really? If I write a GUI that uses dpkg *only* via
'system(dpkg --command arg);'
that would be a derived work?
I would say no. RMS disagrees.
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John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
The GPL doesn't define guidelines for what is a derived product and what is
not.
Consider the problem of CORBA. It makes it possible to use a library that is
not tied into your application, and is not in your address space, as if it
were a static or shared library.
I'm hoping that GPL 3 will
I am packaging the PS type 1 fonts for TIPA. They are distributed along
with the README file below. The author mentions public domain but he
feels something about the Metafont license. I think that the licensing
conditions are DFSG compliant. Could someone please confirm it? (Cc: to
me, as I
Lots of excellent info, thanks everyone.
So far the basic answer appears to be no one knows, because the
definition of derived is too vague.
I'm still a little curious about it though. I assume that writing
a shell script that calls GPL'ed code is OK, right? Even if that
shell
He means well but needs a bit of license education. He should reproduce the
metafont license in a file in his font distribution, he should note that the
font is under the metafont license, and he should add that the _modifications_
he has made are donated to the public domain.
Thanks
Maury Markowitz writes:
if I have written concent from the authors in question to build a GUI
shell is that OK regardless of the vagrity of the license in this regard?
Yes, of course.
And who _are_ the authors in the case of GPL'ed code?
Who are the authors of any code? The terms of the
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