Peter,
I'm going to top post, so forgive that.
I know we've been through lots of licensing issues in the past.
However, the fact remains that the GPL FAQs as well as the FSF license
e-mail answering people have directly responded inquiries from SWORD
application developers and stated that it *IS*
Yes, we have been through this before.
The answer we have got from the FSF is that GPL compatible licenses are OK
for *all* code of frontends using the library, but of course the whole thing
has to operate under the GPLv2 (so you can't get round GPL restrictions by
using a compatible license on th
Greg,
We have been on teh mailing list through this discussion already a few
dozen of times.
If you write GUI code for _a_ bible programme and then go looking for a
suitable backend, + decide to go for libsword your initial independent
GUI code may be under any licence you see fit as long as it
I think that if you look at other sections of the FAQ you will come to
the conclusion that while the new code of the frontend may only need to
be GPL-compatible, it could also as a derivative need to be GPL, and
either way the combined code must be GPL. So yes, the frontend must be
GPL or GPL-c
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:29 AM, DM Smith wrote:
> On 08/03/2009 09:58 AM, Greg Hellings wrote:
>>
>> I was on this page - http://crosswire.org/wiki/Frontends:FeatureList -
>> earlier today and noticed the following line:
>> All frontends MUST be GPLv2 licensed. (This should be obvious. The
>> SWORD
On 08/03/2009 09:58 AM, Greg Hellings wrote:
I was on this page - http://crosswire.org/wiki/Frontends:FeatureList -
earlier today and noticed the following line:
All frontends MUST be GPLv2 licensed. (This should be obvious. The
SWORD Project is GPLv2-licensed. All derivative works, such as
front
I was on this page - http://crosswire.org/wiki/Frontends:FeatureList -
earlier today and noticed the following line:
All frontends MUST be GPLv2 licensed. (This should be obvious. The
SWORD Project is GPLv2-licensed. All derivative works, such as
frontends and utilities, must be GPLv2 or they would
