Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Distribution of GPSBabel executable

[Robert L. <rob...@us...>]

> We are making a program that uses the "standard command line interface"=
 of
> GPS Babel to read/write to GPS.

What terms cover your program?

> As I understand from the GNU General Public License we may distribute t=
h
> GPSBabel.exe together with our program.
> Are there any obligations regarding mentioning of copyright that we hav=
e to
> provide on each copy or on paper?

Yes, there are additional terms like you must include the text of the GPL=
 and
make it readily findable.  They're listed in the license.   You may find =

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html a bit more digestable.

Notably, you must be prepared to offer the source of GPSBabel and any cha=
nges

you've made to it.


As a general "playing nice with others" note, if you're using it in a
commercial
program, please consider helping the project with code or cash.   As you
probably
learned when you decided to not develop your own code, developing code fo=
r and

supporting a few hundred GPSes isn't a trivial task.