Re: GPL and closed source

2001-07-12 Thread Carlo Wood
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:39:21AM -0700, Greg Herlein wrote: Let's say that I've developped a programm under GPL. Is it possible to create Closed-source plugins for the GPL programm and sell them ? If you own the copyright to the larger framework, this can be done legally. You'll want

Re: GPL and closed source

2001-07-12 Thread Henningsen
While I'm even less of a lawyer than most folks here, I disagree. My opinion is that you *can* write a closed source plugin to work with a published interface, and distribute it for a fee, and nobody can stop you from doing that. I also remember having read here that RMS is of the opinion that if

RE: GPL and closed source

2001-07-12 Thread Dave J Woolley
From: Carlo Wood [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Selling closed source plugins wouldn't be illegal anyway, but wouldn't it be illegal for the buyers to link the bought plugins with the GPL-ed opensource? If so then that means that My impression was that the FSF only really cared about