Re: [xmlvm-users] Commercial usage

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

It is my understanding of the GPL, that derivative work (i.e., your 
application that is linked to a GPLed library) also needs to be GPLed. 
Of course you can also dual license with a GPL-compatible license.

Arno


Panayotis Katsaloulis wrote:
> On 26 Οκτ 2009, at 6:14 ΜΜ, Arno Puder wrote:
> 
>>
>> ...  If you use XMLVM to translate
>> your application, the resulting source code will also be under the GPL
>> license. ...
> 
> 
> 
> I think there is a misconception here :)
> 
> The source code of my application should *not* be under the GPL  
> license. It could be under the license I want it to be. What actually  
> xmlvm does is only to transform my code from one "style" to the other   
> (i.e. from *.class to *.xml or *.m or whatever)
> All rights and license and all that in any case remain to the original  
> author.
> 
> I think what you probably mean is that, the source code of my  
> application *should* be under a GPL-compatible license (not  
> necessarily under GPL itself) if I want to *link* it with the Obj-C  
> compatibility library (which is also under GPL).
> If it's not, it's a GPL violation!
> 
> 
> The rest of the text is something I think I understand.
> If I got it right, if someone want to use this library to create an  
> iPhone application (for example), then he has to do one of the options  
> provided in the previous email.
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