[quote="cjalmeida"].. Legally speaking, the editor must abide by the GPL only on contributed code, it poses no restriction whatsoever on the code they have written themselves. Additionally, as a civil right, only the copyright holder - the contributor - may enforce the right. As a user, you can't.
Also, as I said, modules that interface or link with GPL do not constitute as modification or derivative work. The understanding is that proprietary modules are, therefore, not a violation of the copyright law, thus the GPL. That's why proprietary video drivers for Linux are legal. [/quote] I'm afraid it isn't that simple. The kernel is GPL2 and refuses to go GPL3 just because of the case you mention. OpenERP's code is GPL3. Under the terms of the latter, it is still unclear (to me at least), what happens if you need to interface this work with a closed-source product. I know, for sure, that GPL3 is more strict on that. Please see: http://www.openobject.com/forum/topic8157.html I haven't had adequate answers to those worries, still. -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=35348#35348 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman/listinfo/tinyerp-users
