2009/7/27 Ahmad ElDardiry <[email protected]>: > السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته > May peace and Allah Mercy and Blessings be upon you, > > Chris Pugh, > "...else you are breaking the stringent terms of the GPL"
> Why do you think I'm asking these questions here for ? My sentence was simply a tag line to the response given to you by Matthias, and meant to qualify his statement. Where is the difficulty in your comprehension? The GPL is, in effect, a Copyright License. When Matthas created SWFTools, he made it Open Source, releasing under the GPL, i.e. showing anyone who was interested, how the program binaries do what they do. He still retains Copyright on his own idea and code. Redistribute and use the GPL's binaries from the SWFTools distribution in your own work, and you *must* make the source code that created them available to the user. How that source code is actually made available depends on the version of the GPL you re complying with. > I don't know much about GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT ... but I'm also willing to > respect them. If including these binaries only would break the license, then > insha' Allah I won't use them. Dear oh dear! Why so uptight? ;o) Where is the problem in allowing people access to the source code of something that you yourself got for nothing, and crediting those responsible? Please enlighten me/us? Are you perchance worried that customers may not buy your wares, when they realize the major components are GPL'd?? > There is "sswf" as an alternative to me, which may have a more suitable > license for me (MIT), I'm not sure yet, but I find SWFTools much more easy > to use, so I thought I check here first.t need There is really very little different between MIT and GPL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License. for example, you have to include the respective License Agreement with your own presumably intended to be proprietary ( closed source ) software! > Mathiass, you mentioned this in other thread: > > "You don't need licensing for that- You're free to use the swf output files > for whatever you see fit." > > and that's exactly what I want to do, is this legal ? With respect, that is an entirely different point. You don't need permission to use them, nut you should still make the source code that created them available in some form to your 'customers' Bettawfeeq بالتوفيق! Ma’a salama, Chris.
