On Thursday 06 November 2003 01:14, Micha Feigin wrote:
> From you are saying you can't use any GPL toolkit to build commercial
> software.
You seem to confuse commercial with proprietary. A company may
charge money for GPL derived programs but if they distribute them
they must provide access to the source as well. (please read
the GPL FAQ at www.fsf.org)
> AFAIK gcc is provided under LGPL so that it can be used free for
> commercial programs.
1. It's GPL -- read the license (it should have been provided with the
code...)
2. It may be used to generate proprietary code since the code gcc
*generates* is not covered by GPL, just like the documents produced
by MS-Word are not covered by their EULA (Btw, it may interest your to
read the license of bison(1) -- it is a GPL with special exception
related to the generated code [to allow the part of bison code
that is included in the parser to be part of a proprietary program])
> I don't have legal training but I know of companies that take the
> approach I mentioned.
So what? There are tons of people and companies that infringes
copyrights of proprietary software every day -- so now you think
it's legal?
> Its yet to stand up in court though.
What should stand up in court? The "right" to distribute software
against its license terms? You must be drinking.
The only thing a court may need to decide is if linking a library
makes your software a derived work. As I said before, this case
looks clear enough to most people that even infringing companies
prefer to release code and not go to court when they get caught.
good day,
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