Thanks for the help guys. It makes more sense to me now. -Alex
On Jul 13, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:00:43 -0400 > [email protected] wrote: > >> Send Users-prolog mailing list submissions to >> [email protected] >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/users-prolog >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> [email protected] >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> [email protected] >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of Users-prolog digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. License questions (Alexander Wolfe) >> 2. Re: License questions (Daniel Savard) >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:42:50 -0700 >> From: Alexander Wolfe <[email protected]> >> Subject: License questions >> To: [email protected] >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> I have a couple of questions about the use of gprolog compiled programs. I >> understand that gprolog is GPL software and that any modified version of its >> codebase would be required to be released under a GPL compatible license. >> What about programs compiled with gprolog? I know that gcc does not restrict >> compiled programs to the GPL. What is the case here? >> >> Thank you. >> >> -Alex >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/users-prolog/attachments/20100712/29c38652/attachment.html >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:21:54 -0400 >> From: Daniel Savard <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: License questions >> To: [email protected] >> Message-ID: >> <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> 2010/7/12 Alexander Wolfe <[email protected]>: >>> I have a couple of questions about the use of gprolog compiled programs. I >>> understand that gprolog is GPL software and that any modified version of its >>> codebase would be required to be released under a GPL compatible license. >>> What about programs compiled with gprolog? I know that gcc does not restrict >>> compiled programs to the GPL. What is the case here? >>> >> >> >> The answer is obvious, same license same terms. A license cannot >> pretend to acquire rights on the original work of others. The idea of >> a license is to protect something and in this case, the GNU-Prolog >> compiler. >> >> I know there is some copyrights and intellectual property lawyers >> which are dessiminating the idea the GPL license extend to everything >> developped using OSS. But they are wrong. There is plenty of examples >> they are. >> >> BTW, I am not a lawyer, so, if this is a very sensitive question for >> you, ask one or more than one, but pick a good one. >> > > Nor am I, but at the end of the COPYING file in the source install of Gprolog > you will find the following: > " > This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into > proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may > consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the > library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library General > Public License instead of this License. > " > This is the LGPL loophole, allowing you to LINK your own code to > the Gprolog Libraries without releasing your code under the GPL. > > So your development environment is under the main GPL and you > could not sell it without the full GPL viral recursion, but > target/end use products are not so encumbered, given that > they are substantially different in function and purpose than > Gprolog itself. > > Dhu > >> Regards, >> -- >> ----------------- >> Daniel Savard >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users-prolog mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/users-prolog >> >> >> End of Users-prolog Digest, Vol 85, Issue 4 >> ******************************************* _______________________________________________ Users-prolog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/users-prolog
