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From: Robert Hartley <rhartley@ics.com>
To: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: SN backend GPL or LGPL?  (was: SourceNav release...)
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C6ACA54.808AB195@ics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E2D27064CD59574F88D05AEF5728396D445612@PH01SRV02.photuris.com>

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Doug Fraser wrote:

> If you link in a library, your new work embodies that library, and
> thus is covered by the license of the underlying library. If that were
> not so, then any OpenSource project could be turned into a library
> in order to void the GPL. So the act of linking to a library binds your
> work to the underlying license. Deriving a library from a GPL product
> conveys GPL status to that library, since the library is a derivative work.
>
> Which, in the spirit of the tool and the spirit of OpenSource, is
> as it should be. However, I can't see that it would keep you from
> developing an extended IDE if the rest of the IDE communicated to
> SN through an API that did not require linking. CORBA as you say
> or a database.

All other issues aside, using Corba or something as a workaround would not be
in the collaborative spirit of open source.

That is why I am wondering about an LGPL version of the SN backend.

Thanks to all for listening,

- Rob


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-13 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-13 11:55 Doug Fraser
2002-02-13 12:49 ` Robert Hartley [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-15  9:43 Doug Fraser
2002-02-13 10:38 Davies, Mike
2002-02-13 10:50 ` Robert Hartley
2002-02-13 11:25   ` Ian Roxborough
2002-02-13  9:06 Robert Hartley
2002-02-13 12:19 ` Syd Polk

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