On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 07:47:33PM -0500, Ben Lutgens wrote: > Someone take a look at > http://www.enthdimension.com.au/software/fm/index.dsh and explain to me > how it can be licensed the way it is. Does this not seem wrong to you? I > am by no means a GPL zealot, but I am curious how they can code > something using GPL, and lGPL libs and then have a definitely closed > license. What Scott said. If they're using LGPL libraries, that only imposes the restriction that they make it possible to replace the library with another version of it, either by linking dynamically to the library or providing compiled object code and instructions (such as a makefile) for linking that object code against the LGPLed library. After all, LGPL was created specifically to help people create Free libraries that could be used in non-Free applications. OTOH, if they're statically linking to libs that are under the full GPL, then there's a problem. (If they link dynamically to a GPLed .so, that's not a real clear-cut case under GPL v2, but I'm inclined to say that it would probably be technically permissible, despite violating the likely intent of the library's creator. But IANAL, IANRMS, etc.) -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.12: GCS d? s+: a C++ UL++++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w--- O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv+ b+ DI++++ D G e* h r y+