mmital wrote:
Thanks. I just wanted to know what are my options if I want to use third party code in my application that is free to use, but is not necessarily under the GPL. The author of this third party component is saying that I can use his free code, but he is not willing to license his code under GPL.
That's a different question altogether. You can license your code under GPL and use any 3-rd party code that has a license that is compatible with the GPL. The list of compatible licenses differs between v2 and v3.
SWORD is v2 and does not have a clause that allows it to also be used as v3 (i.e. the "or later" clause). So the 3-rd party licenses that are permissible are those that are compatible with v2.
That said, my opinion as one who is not a lawyer, it is the GPL that restricts what is compatible, and (typically) not the 3-rd party. For example, v2 is not compatible with Apache licenses (e.g. Lucene), but the Lucene folk don't care if a (L)GPL program uses their library. That does not put them under any obligation to become GPL.
In Him, DM
On 3/16/09, *DM Smith* <dmsm...@crosswire.org <mailto:dmsm...@crosswire.org>> wrote:mmital wrote: Hi, I have been using Alkitab bible study lately. Fantastic piece of software, truly amazing. I also noticed that it is in public domain, while using sword engine that is in GPL v2, and other components that may have their own license (http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/LICENSE-alkitab.txt) My question is: Am I permitted to release future versions of SwordBible under public domain? The reason is that I want to continue to use the sword library that is under GPL, while also making use of third party components that may not be under GPL (with the permissions from their respective copyright holders). Can this be done? Thanks for the clarifications. I can't answer for the SWORD library. Alkitab Bible Study is public domain and clearly states it does not pertain to any parts of JSword or any other third party library that JSword depends upon. We discussed this on jsword-devel. It was a decision of the JSword development team not to make a big deal out of it. We'd like to keep it that way; that is, not a big deal for Alkitab. (At this point, I think Tonny would go GPL, if we asked him to.) In Him, DM _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org <mailto:sword-devel@crosswire.org> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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