Re: [Fxruby-users] Licensing question - I can make money, right?

[Rich <ri...@li...>]

Then if my target audience were Windows-only, I wouldn't have to worry about
any of the points you've addressed - is that right?

-Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Sawtell" <csa...@pa...>
To: <fxr...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Fxruby-users] Licensing question - I can make money, right?


> On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 05:39, Rich wrote:
> > I've looked into the FXRuby license (LGPL) and the FOX license (modified
> > LGPL).
> >
> > Other than that - a program using FXRuby would have the OpenGL file
> > included, which has no license for software developers...
> >
> > ... so - those are all of the licenses - right?
> No, on Linux you forget the LGPL licence on the glibc library which
underlies
> the whole kit and kaboodle.
>
> > If I understand the LGPL correctly, I can use LGPL'd work in my
standalone
> > EXE and not have to license my work under LGPL at all.
> No, not necessarily, it depends.
>
> > I can close the source for all of my work - right?
> Yes, of _your_ work, but not that of the other contributors if they have
> licenced their work under the LGPL.
>
> The spirit of the LGPL is that it allows you to distribute your work
> secretively, yet at the same time it gives the end user the right to
upgrade
> the LGPL licenced libraries to which your work is linked. This, in effect,
> means that you have to distribute your work as a binary which dynamically
> loads the LGPL licenced libraries as shared object libraries. Static
linking
> the whole application in a GNU environment is not allowed. In practice
this
> only applies on Linux and if using cygwin under Windows, because on the
other
> platforms the libc library is either a commercially licenced product, e.g.
on
> MS Windows, or is subject to the BSD licence which allows you to do more
or
> less whatever you want, provided you don't (ab)use the name of the Regents
or
> other contributors in advertising.
>
> -- 
> Sincerely etc.
> Christopher Sawtell
>
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