Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is perfectly legal, apparently, to have a GPLed program use (e.g. > shell out to) a commercial piece of software. It has to be - to > disallow this would be very stupid indeed. And indeed, the whole idea > of have standard APIs for program communication (like SQL, although > that's a bad example because there's no real standard for how to > actually send the queries) is that, I, the user, can choose which > programs (which RDBMS, for example) to use.
Then again, it's probably not legal to ship a GPL'd program which has hard coded into it a system call that only works with proprietary software. It's legal to link GPL'd software against limited use, proprietary software. You just can't distribute it. [Do we need a special list to discuss GPL copyright issues? This is getting out of hand.] -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
