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- From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@netfolder.com>
- To: <mlepage@antimeta.com>,<xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:15:02 -0400
Hi,
It depends also a lot on the code packaging. For instance if the GPLed
library is packaged as a shared library on Unix or as a dll on Windows then
you can link to it because it won't be part of the code you provide but will
exist as a separate entity. Subtle but important ;-)
Didier PH Martin
mailto:martind@netfolder.com
http://www.netfolder.com
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
mlepage@antimeta.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 6:54 PM
To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
Subject: Re: SAX C/C++ Implementations?
On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 04:29:59PM -0400, David Megginson wrote:
> <mlepage@antimeta.com> writes:
>
> > Oh, I forgot to ask: how do you cope with the fact that Expat is
> > licensed as MPL/GPL?
>
> That's a problem only if you make modifications to Expat itself and
> you want to redistribute the modified Expat but keep your
> modifications closed-source -- an extremely rare situation, I'd guess.
>
> Simply using an open-source library doesn't force your app to be
> open-source as well; at worst, you might need to stick the Expat
> source code in a zip file somewhere on your CD.
My understanding is, if you use GPL source without GPLing your code, you are
in violation of the license. You can, however, use a GPL'd program, provided
you don't link to it, and you provide the source. It is the LGPL that allows
you to link to the library. I am not aware of any way to use GPL'd source
without GPLing your own source, save not releasing at all.
If this is true, then my understanding is wrong.
--
Marc Lepage (aka SEGV)
http://www.antimeta.com/
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