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

[Christopher S. <csa...@pa...>]

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 16:51, Rich wrote:
> 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?
As far as FOX and FXRuby are concerned it would appear that you are correct.

The Ruby interpreter itself is licenced under either the full GPL or by the 
text at http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/LICENSE.txt

I'd suggest that you get explicit permission from the various authors to do 
what you intend to do.

btw, as Ruby is an interpreted language, I'm curious as to how you are going 
to hide your intellectual property from prying eyes. I was under the, perhaps 
incorrect, impression that it is technically impossible. Doesn't that render 
these discussions somewhat moot especially when one remembers that there is 
absolutely no restriction on selling GPL software or services.



> -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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