Re: Dumb Licensing Questions

2016-12-24 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Greg Troxel writes: > writes: > >> It's clear that there are different standpoints. The linking thing (dynamic >> or static) hasn't, AFAIK, tested in court. It's quite possible that different >> courts reach different conclusions (in the same or different places in the >> world). It's even possi

Re: Dumb Licensing Questions

2016-12-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 09:17:50AM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On 12/24/2016 09:03 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > That's probably because YANAL. > > > > (sorry, couldn't resist). [...] > Sorry, I just wanted to call attention to othe

Re: Dumb Licensing Questions

2016-12-24 Thread Greg Troxel
writes: > It's clear that there are different standpoints. The linking thing (dynamic > or static) hasn't, AFAIK, tested in court. It's quite possible that different > courts reach different conclusions (in the same or different places in the > world). It's even possible (gasp!) that the legal i

Re: Dumb Licensing Questions

2016-12-24 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 12/24/2016 09:03 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > That's probably because YANAL. > > (sorry, couldn't resist). > > It's clear that there are different standpoints. The linking thing (dynamic > or static) hasn't, AFAIK, tested in court. It's quite possible that different > courts reach different c

Re: Dumb Licensing Questions

2016-12-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 07:15:04AM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On 12/15/2016 08:18 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > > > Wes Frazier writes: > > > > […] > > For compiled code as well as for interpreted code which uses GPL’ed > > cod

Re: Dumb Licensing Questions

2016-12-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On 12/15/2016 08:18 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > Wes Frazier writes: > > […] > For compiled code as well as for interpreted code which uses GPL’ed > code, your own code has to be under a GPL-compatible license. > > If you ship the different parts together, the resulting *combined work* >

Re: Dumb Licensing Questions

2016-12-15 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Wes Frazier writes: > Ive mostly stuck to compiled languages until now. However, I know that > if I were writing compiled code, using a GPLed library with no linking > exception, my resulting code would have to be GPLed as well. This is why > many libraries are under the LGPL instead (including l

Re: Dumb Licensing Questions

2016-12-14 Thread spk121
For guile-ncurses, only a couple of test programs are GPL. The library itself is LGPL, if I recall correctly.

Dumb Licensing Questions

2016-12-14 Thread Wes Frazier
I have been poking around with guile and trying to learn scheme. However I have a licensing question and please forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere, ive tried searching quite a bit, and checked the GPL Faq and couldn't find it. I've noticed that several language bindings listed under li