Re: [Jazzlib-developers] licensing question

[John L. <je...@pi...>]

What happens when you include individual jazzlib source files into your
project. Or what if you include individual .class files from the jazzlib
jar?

John Leuner

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 15:01, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> 2005/6/13, Bosko Milosavljevic <bo...@io...>:
> >  
> > Hi, 
> >   
> > we are making a J2ME application that should be able to handle zip files on
> > mobile phone. We have migrated some of your classes to one of mobile phone
> > models and it seems to work fine. Intention is to sell the application. Out
> > client insist to have a exclusivity of 1 year to the application which put
> > us in situation not to be able to open the source within this period. What
> > shall we do? Is there any other possibility that we satisfy our client and
> > still to fit to your license? 
> 
> Jazzlib is licensed under GPL + *exception*. I think the exception rule
> allows everything you need.  In short you are allowed to link your code against
> an unmodified version of jazzlib and put the result under a proprietery license.
> Only if you change the code of the jazzlib library itself you have to publish it
> under GPL.
> 
> Regards,
>   Jochen Hoenicke