On Thu, 2 May 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: > > Le Thu, May 02, 2002, à 12:32:41PM +0200, Pierre Pronchery a écrit: > >> PS: another problem comes to my mind: according to Dia's license, as I'm >> hacking on simple shapes, shapes in a plug-in, and now additional >> features, do I have to share my work? I do this for a company, which >> seems to be OK if the source code is opened, but asks for written >> permission for its use and redistribution... > > You and your company must either comply with the GPL or not use this > software at all; you have the choice. You'll probably want to solve this > problem of choice before you even begin to solve the linker and compiler > issues.
Certainly if you change Dia, you must either not redistribute it or send out the source along with it. Plug-ins I'm not so sure about, shapes are probably not covered. But IANAL. -Lars
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