On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, kurt godel wrote: > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:25:07 -0400 > From: kurt godel <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Freedos-user] The GPL license. > > This is a general question, not(?) completely off topic. I have never quite > understood the GPL type license > in the following sense: I write my own c++ software; I compile it using an > open source deal like djgpp; > if I then distribute the compiled exe, am I legally obliged to also > distribute(i.e. my) the source code that I merely > compiled on a GPL system?. If so, is this because the GPL libraries are > statically linked into the exe?. > Am I in any case required to include the source code that came with the > djgpp distro?. I am genuinely > confused about this, and the requirements *appear* to be daunting and > cumbersome; or, am I making > much ado about nothing?--kurt<[email protected]>. >
Afaik, if you wrote a a code under gpl and made exe you have to put the source code on ftp server or say who wants the code can have a copy of the code on cd. Second i am comming from BSD and the license under BSD afaik you dont have to provide the source code you should take look. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses Menuhin http://www.msaitov.de/pgp.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
