Standard disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. If you're in doubt, I think the best way to do this is to distribute things separately. Just make an installer / updater for the GTK libs ( that would be handy, by the way ... oh and if you build some Windows themes, *please* distribute these too ). Then in your MIT licensed app, say "You'll need GTK libs ... and an installer / updater exists at location <blah>".
This would surely not break any licenses, as they're separate projects. Dan On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:16 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a Pike GTK app that works on Windows and Linux (and > theoretically other platforms but I haven't tested it). The Windows > version of Pike distributes GTK DLLs for 2.12.11, which has some flaws > compared to 2.24.10 which I use elsewhere. So it would be convenient > for my users if I could have a simple command inside my app that goes > and fetches eighteen files (including Pango, Cairo, etc) and deploys > them to the correct location. > > And therein is a licensing problem. GTK is licensed LGPL, but my app > is under the freer MIT license. So the question is: Am I making a > derivative/combined work by making an installer that fetches GTK DLLs? > > I don't want to have to mess with the licensing of my project (putting > some of it under the (L)GPL) for the sake of a convenience feature, > but on the flip side, there's no point listing lengthy instructions > saying "go download this, extract this, put this this this and this in > here, then restart the program" if I can say "enter this one-word > command". > > What's the rule on distributing DLLs with non-GPL software? The GPL > FAQ has a lot, but not really what I'm after. > > Thanks! > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
