On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 03:06:19PM -0700, Lynn Allan wrote: > Live several others on this list, I am a freeware developer trying to > participate in The SWORD Project's software development. When I first > encountered this licensing issue, I hunted around the gnu website quite a > while to learn more. I made several visits to the link noted above, and each > time hoped there was an "EasyEnglish" version :-)
I'll take my chances and try to explain it as simply as I can: Let A denote the stuff you write, and B the Sword libraries. You can release A as freeware, or under any license you want. To get a working program, you'll need A+B. A+B must be distributed under the GPL. Distributing A+B as GPL does not prevent you from distributing A as freeware - you can do both at the same time. The catch is that a compiled binary is A+B, you cannot get a compiled binary with just A. HTH :) #include <standard-ianal-disclaimer.h> - KS _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
