From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8959 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2002 18:38:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact sourcenav-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: sourcenav-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8870 invoked from network); 13 Feb 2002 18:38:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ics.com) (216.112.183.3) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Feb 2002 18:38:21 -0000 Received: from ics.com (ics.com [216.112.183.3]) by ics.com (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) with ESMTP id NAA22550; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:38:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C6AB2A2.5121A504@ics.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:50:00 -0000 From: Robert Hartley Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.8-26mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Davies, Mike" CC: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: SN backend GPL or LGPL? (was: SourceNav release...) References: <50D13214B9CBD41180800008C7CFB62C45F4D5@AZTEC> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------D8294AF2E38D55D0EA16AE2B" X-SW-Source: 2002-q1/txt/msg00067.txt.bz2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------D8294AF2E38D55D0EA16AE2B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 1255 What I was trying to ask is if we made the back end of SN a shared library, libSNdb.so, would every thing that linked to this library have to be GPL'd or would the library be able to be treated as a LGPL work? Ian? -rob "Davies, Mike" wrote: > > What if we had some sort of Corba type middle ware that provided a > > decent distributed API, without actually linking the code in. > > Would any > > application that connected to it still be bound by the GPL? > > Any changes you made to the Sourcenav Code would be GPLed and you would have > to provide them in the usual ways, however it seems to me that any > application that used the CORBA interface would be effectively dynamically > linked to it and so might escape the GPL. > > > I am trying to find out here if there is any room for commercial > > developers to contribute to SN. It would be a shame to let > > it all go to > > waste. > > Well, many commercial firms contribute to GPLed SW, there is nothing > stopping you from doing that. If you are trying to make a proprietry > version of SourceNav then this is prohibited by the licence. That is quite > apart from the implications for the feelings of people who contributed their > efforts freely for the common good. > > Mike Davies --------------D8294AF2E38D55D0EA16AE2B Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="rhartley.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Robert Hartley Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="rhartley.vcf" Content-length: 366 begin:vcard n:Hartley;Robert tel;fax:617-621-9555 tel;work:617-621-0060 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.ics.com/ org:Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS);Engineering version:2.1 email;internet:robert.hartley@ics.com title:Systems Engineer adr;quoted-printable:;;Sixth Floor=0D=0A201 Broadway;Cambridge;MA;02139;USA x-mozilla-cpt:;7328 fn:Robert Hartley end:vcard --------------D8294AF2E38D55D0EA16AE2B--