Quoting Robb Shecter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Justin Wells wrote:
>
> > You can use webMacro on a corporate or commercial or any other kind
> > of site. You can build applications based on WebMacro and transfer
> > copyright to them to someone else. In both cases you can keep your
> > sources proprietary, and do not need to contact anyone.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Is this true? I thought that it wasn't - maybe I'm wrong. As far as I
> undertand it:
Yes. In what I described above, the way 99% of people will use it,
there is no distribution. The GPL's restrictions apply specifically and
only to disttribution.
> * GPL was explicitly designed to be a "free software virus" (And I do mean this
> positively). Any extensions to GPL code must also be GPL. AND IMPORTANTLY, a
> piece of code "linking" to a GPL library is considered an extension. This
> doesn't affect software that just executes other programs, like something that
> shells out and calls GNU "diff" for example. But, it would affect code that
> links and uses "webmacro".
Yes. But if you use WebMacro to build your site you are not distributing
anything to anyone. Only when you package it up into a product does
the GPL have anything to say.
> * LGPL was explicity designed to ease up this restriction of GPL; for reusable
> class libraries without forcing client code to also become GPL.
The FSF discourages new software from being placed under LGPL:
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html
Justin
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