From: Erwan V. <er...@se...> - 2006-08-11 14:46:18
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Laurence Orchard wrote: >Not necessarily so, modify GPL code that remains GPL, if you use code >that is GPL, that code remains GPL, but if you write code of your own >that does not have to be GPL. > > The GPL License says : "This General Public License does not permit incorporating your program into proprietary programs. If your program is a subroutine library, you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary applications with the library. If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Lesser General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html> instead of this License." As smartmontools is GPL, you cannot link your application to it if your are not GPL too. |