Re: [Gambas-devel] Just a license question...

[Rob <sou...@ku...>]

On Monday 29 September 2003 14:36, Daniel Campos wrote:
>  Gambas is licensed under GPL, so it seems that no commercial
> "closed" program could be made with gambas, I mean, any Gambas
> program should be licensed under GPL, but by the other said, a
> program written in Gambas-Basic, is just interpreted by Gambas
> run-time, that is, it is not statically or dinamically linked
> with Gambas,instead, you run Gambas to make a program work: it
> is similar to Kaffe , you can run any java program, even it
> has a closed license.

We talked about this around the time I joined the list.  Gambas=20
itself isn't what makes Gambas programs GPL; Qt is.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL

I don't know what the mysql libs' license is but the same could=20
apply to non-GUI Gambas programs that use mysql.

Rob