On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 07:18:30PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 06:18:19PM +0100, Jens Ritter wrote: > > > "public domain" means that you can publish it under the GPL. > > This term means that the ones who are copyright owners do not enforce > > it but have placed it into the public domain. Which basically means > > that you can do anything with such a piece of software (even copyright > > it by yourself and sell it under NDAs and such). > > > > Releasing it under the GPL becomes an issue of politics (with regard > > to the upstream maintainers). > > This political problem is my concern here. I understand that I CAN (if I > wish) release the modified sources under the GPL. My specific question here > is whether I HAVE TO release it under the GPL if I link with the GNU > Readline library (which is GPL'ed). Noticed that the original upstream > code (which is in "public domain") has nothing to do with the Readline > library, only my modifications are related to it.
Yes, you have to: every binary linked against a GPL'ed library must be redistributed under GPL. > > Thanks for your advise, Jens, but I think that I need more enlightenment. > > -- > Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- Francesco Tapparo | [EMAIL PROTECTED] fight for your software freedoms: www.fsf.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
