Re: [Mapbuilder-devel] Mapbuilder and the GPL

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This paragraph from the GPL FAQ is helpful:
"However, in many cases you can distribute the GPL-covered software alongside
your proprietary system. To do this validly, you must make sure that the free
and non-free programs communicate at arms length, that they are not 
combined in
a way that would make them effectively a single program."
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLInProprietarySystem)

--Raj

Quoting "Diez, Matthew" <mat...@ie...>:

> I work for a commercial entity that wishes to distribute a web application
> that utilizes mapbuilder.
>
> Our plans do not involve any modification of MapBuilder (And, of course, any
> fixes made to Mapbuilder
> would be contributed back to the community).
>
> We simply wish to use Mapbuilder's map display alongside the rest of our web
> app.
>
> Under the GPL, does our web app then become a "derivative work", and thus
> need to be entirely open-sourced?
>
> Or, can we simply bundle the unmodified mapbuilder source (plus whatever
> modifications we might need to make) with the binary app?
>
> I've perused quite a bit of FAQs, and none of them seem quite satisfactory.
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew D. Diez
>
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