<> It is my understanding the GPL v3 license restricts any commercial > closed source use except in the case that the GPL'ed source code is > compiled into a separate library that is linked to during run-time vs. > being compiled into the exe file itself. LGPL (for LesserGPL) let you link to a library without making your application source code available. This is the license a lot of library use (ex.: QT)
If you use GPL code in your application, you have to license it under GPL too. > It is my understanding the BSD license allows anyone to do anything with > the source however you retain full copyright and ownership. For example > the Mac OS X is based off of FreeBSD The BSD license let you take the code and do whatever you want with it, even making it closed source. As an example, the TCP/IP stack of Windows is closed source, but is based on the BSD stack. So if you license your code on BSD, someone could take it, compile a Delphi component with it, then call it is own and sell it. DISCALAIMER - I am not a lawyer either :) -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
