Re: [FreeDCE-DCOMdev] Freedce releases ...

[Wez F. <we...@th...>]

freedce is under a free-for-any-use-don't-blame-us-if-it-breaks
OSF license (check out the source for details).

However, it depends on dcethreads which is under a GPL license,
which effectively promotes freedce to GPL too (and your application).

You can purchase the real DCE stuff from the OSF if you have
a LOT of $$$, but note that they are very slowly moving towards
licensing it under the GPL too; check out opendce.org.
Both of these options require porting to linux.

Now, when it comes to the GPL, you would normally run for the
hills, but since the interface is an open standard, you should
be safe to link any code you like to freedce and not be tainted
by the GPL--other vendors have the same library with the same
interface available, so you don't solely depend on the GPL'd
code.

If you fix/port dcethreads to your platform, you would still
need to "make available on request" the source for that part
if you distribute your code.

--Wez.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Eric Laplace <erl>
To: fre...@li...
Cc: erl
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 5:48 PM
Subject: [FreeDCE-DCOMdev] Freedce releases ...


Hi,

I'm trying to find a DCE RPC implementation that runs on LynOs RTOS from
LinuxWorks.
It proposes only POSIX thread library (none the linux thread library).

here after are questions I'm wondering:

General questions:

1) What  freeDCE package can we use (for commercial purpose) ?
2) What is the exact License terms of freeDCE package(s)  (reading the
COPYING / README files of version (1.1.0.7)  I'm still have doubts) ?
3) If not free, where/how can we obtain a price sheet ?


Technical questions:

4) It seems that freeDCE relies on a DCEthread Library. Do you confirm this?
5) Since that DCEThread Libray/package is not free for commercial use;
    so, is there an other way to make a complete freeDCE package (freeDCE+
POSIX thread support) ?
6) Can you confirm that DCEthread interface belongs to Public Domain?


Thanks by advance.
kind regards


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