Re: Licensing (OFF-TOPIC)

1998-04-26 Thread Raul Miller
Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is perfectly legal, apparently, to have a GPLed program use (e.g. > shell out to) a commercial piece of software. It has to be - to > disallow this would be very stupid indeed. And indeed, the whole idea > of have standard APIs for program communication (l

Re: Licensing (OFF-TOPIC)

1998-04-26 Thread Jules Bean
--On Sun, Apr 26, 1998 1:46 pm -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> As an aside, I am beggining to think that we need a better license, from a >> legal perspective, because with all the issues of shared libraries, >> "essential parts", and who knows what else, if someone would really try to >> chall