Re: [Fxruby-users] Licensing question - I can make money, right?
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From: Rich <ri...@li...> - 2004-02-02 03:49:51
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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 > > NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, > it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. > Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > Fxruby-users mailing list > Fxr...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fxruby-users > |