Which license to use for MFC based software?

2004-06-01 Thread Carsten Kuckuk
As far as I understand, I can't use the GPL for any open source project I write using Microsoft's MFC. Which alternatives do I have regarding licenses, that come as close as possible to GPLing my own sources? Carsten -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3

Re: Which license to use for MFC based software?

2004-06-01 Thread Nick Moffitt
begin Carsten Kuckuk quotation: As far as I understand, I can't use the GPL for any open source project I write using Microsoft's MFC. Which alternatives do I have regarding licenses, that come as close as possible to GPLing my own sources? You may grant special exception to the GPL

Re: Which license to use for MFC based software?

2004-06-01 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Nick Moffitt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] The GPL allows you to grant permission to do new things, but won't allow you to put new restrictions on users. See GPL section 6. Nick, I believe Carsten is referring to a section in recent Microsoft SDKs' EULAs banning their use in developing

Re: Which license to use for MFC based software?

2004-06-01 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Nick Moffitt wrote: begin Carsten Kuckuk quotation: As far as I understand, I can't use the GPL for any open source project I write using Microsoft's MFC. Which alternatives do I have regarding licenses, that come as close as possible to GPLing my own sources? You may grant

Re: Which license to use for MFC based software?

2004-06-01 Thread Carsten Kuckuk
Nick, Thank you for your reply. In the meantime I went to the GPL FAQ page (which I should have done before posting here) and found this paragraph which supports your interpretations: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WindowsRuntimeAndGPL [..] I'm writing a Windows application with

Re: Which license to use for MFC based software?

2004-06-01 Thread Carsten Kuckuk
Rick, Thank you for drawing my attention to the MS EULAs. They are really vile. The section that you describe was introduced with one of the VS.NET compilers. On my computer at work I have VS 6.0 and VS.NET 2003 installed. The (German version of the) VS.NET 2003 EULA contains the sections you

Re: Which license to use for MFC based software?

2004-06-01 Thread Evan Prodromou
CK == Carsten Kuckuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CK So from a first superficial look it seems that I can use VS CK 6.0 in order to develop GPLs applications, and that I can CK distribute the source code and the compiled version of the CK application under the GPL as long as the

Re: Which license to use for MFC based software?

2004-06-01 Thread Carsten Kuckuk
Evan, My real problem is, that I'd like to contribute to a GPL'd project. My contribution would be a standalone program that is GUI intensive. During daytime I work as a C++/MFC/database programmer and am very familiar with MS VS as my main tool. So implementing that standalone program using VS