I was on this page - http://crosswire.org/wiki/Frontends:FeatureList - earlier today and noticed the following line: All frontends MUST be GPLv2 licensed. (This should be obvious. The SWORD Project is GPLv2-licensed. All derivative works, such as frontends and utilities, must be GPLv2 or they would be in violation of CrossWire's copyright and the copyrights of 3rd parties whose code has been incorporated into SWORD, e.g. the FSF.)
However, that is directly in contradiction to the words of the Free Software Foundation's FAQ lines about this exact situation: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfLibraryIsGPL If a library is released under the GPL (not the LGPL), does that mean that any program which uses it has to be under the GPL or a GPL-compatible license? Yes, because the program as it is actually run includes the library. This explicitly allows for distribution of other works under compatible licenses, not only under the GPL. This is not restricted by SWORD being only v2, the statement applies to all GPL versions, as others have verified directly with the FSF. This particular FAQ was updated because it had been causing issues with people misinterpreting it to mean that only the GPL could be used for derivative works, as our Wiki has been misled to state. This line on our Wiki should either be updated, or just use a reference directly to the GNU/FSF FAQ page. --Greg _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
