Am Mittwoch, 21. Juli 2010, 22:30:14 schrieb Alexander Kobel: > Wait a minute, is this real? > > MacOS X ships with XCode. XCode ships with the GCC. GCC is mentioned > on the no. 1 of Internet encyclopedias as the no. 2 of GPL-licensed > software. > Does this mean that Apple [...] > d) just knows that this is allowed? > > I'm not a lawyer, but to my understanding: d). A plain bundling of a > binary does not violate even the GPL. It's not linked (not "making > function calls or sharing data structures"), it's not embedded, it's > just shipped with (without modifications, of course) and called.
Exactly. That's what the GPL explicitly allows. You can always call a GPL'ed application from a non-GPL application. > If this is possible, it'd be a real good thing for LilyPond, by the way. > Interested (and paid) developers who will have to spent at least a bit > of their time to interface and output of a program is always a Good Thing. Yes, any application can create a temporary lilypond code file, run the external application lilypond on it and get the resulting PDF... That's allowed, AFAICS, as long as it's just an add-on and not the main task of the application (because then one can argue that it again violates the GPL, Cheers, Reinhold -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/ * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria * http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886 * LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org
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