Re: [Dark-oberon-discuss] Redistributing Dark-Oberon with sound support

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Marin,
This a very common issue, you can read about the openssl case:
http://www.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html
or the nvidia/ATI binary drivers:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/1735


Also plase note that according to section 3 of the GPL, you must
distributed the source code defined as:
...The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
making modifications to it.  For an executable work, complete source
code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
control compilation and installation of the executable. ...

itself accompanies the executable.

Anyway, only the copyright holder can enforce the license, if the
authors don't see a problem on distributing the binaries linked to
fmod then it is not a problem, except or those who really require to
have the fmod lib code.

I personally hate this "tricky" section of GPL.

Thanks

2007/5/1, Marian Cerny <jo...@ma...>:
> On 2007-04-30 16:36 +0100, Jo?o Pinto wrote:
> > The issue with FMOD is that it's license is not GPL compatible regardle=
ss of
> > it's freedom for non commercial use, meaning legally you can't distribu=
te
> > dark-oberon  (which is GPL) linked against FMOD.
>
> I don't think so.
>
> fmod license states: Yes that's right, if your product is not intended
> to make any money, and is not charged for in any way, then you may use
> FMOD in it for FREE!
> That means, as we do not charge for Dark Oberon, we can use fmod for
> free.
>
> I have checked GPL and did not find anything that states linking with
> non GPL software. Please provide a quote that states it can't be done.
> Anyway, I doubt it is prohibited. For example on FreeBSD there is a lot
> of GPL software that is linked against BSD libraries (e.g. a basic C
> library).
>
> I think linking a GPL software with non GPL libraries is allowed. What
> is prohibited is linking a GPL library to non GPL software.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marian Cerny
>
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