On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:05:13AM -0500, Tilghman Lesher wrote: > > I've never released replicate publicly, because I'm not sure how taking > > a program like tail and adapting it to a new purpose is handled by the > > GPL. However, I'm sure someone on this list more knowledgeable than > > myself can help me understand that issue. > > There's no problem, as long as you distribute your program under the GPL, > which means providing the source on demand to anybody to whom you distribute > a binary. > > If you want to distribute under another license, then it comes down to how you > developed the code. If you developed the code to work similarly to tail, but > you did not use any tail code (or any other GPL code) directly, then you're > pretty much free to use any license you like. However, if you started off > with the tail codebase and altered it, it is a derivative work, and GPL is the > only way to go.
And of course, as long as you don't distribute it[1], then you can do anything you like with it, GPL or not. Cheers, -- jra [1]for suitable values of 'distribute', which for GPLv2 means "ship", and for GPLv3/AGPL means "make available through a web service". -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users