On 06/12/13 10:49, Nils Faerber wrote: > Am 12.06.2013 07:24, schrieb Navin: >> Since GnuPG comes under the GPL, I would like to clarify if a person's >> proprietary software makes use of GnuPG purely by invocation of the >> commandline commands, and the GnuPG exe's and DLL's are bundled >> unmodified with the person's proprietary software, can the person use >> GnuPG commercially in this manner without having to publish his/her >> source code? > > IANAL but from my understanding: > 1. by invocation of the commandline commands: Yes > 2. invocation of GnuPG exe: Yes > 3. Linking, dynamically or statically, against a GnuPG DLL, presumed > that it is licensed under GPL: No
IANAL either, but that is also my understanding. If you do ship GnuPG with a proprietary application under options 1 or 2, you also have to include the GnuPG source code (or an offer to provide it on request). Just providing a link to the main GnuPG site (or a mirror) is technically not sufficent (unless you enter into an agreement with the person that operates that site to provide the downloads on your behalf). _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
