On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:22:26PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:05:23PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > But plex86 is a bit different from emacs, plex86 needs to "intergrate" > > with windows to do its job if I'm right. That means a GPL > > volitation. I don't have any knowledge about windows, can somebody > > tell me how the interface works on that platform? > > IIRC there's an vxd driver, but it's distributed separately from Plex86. > then Plex86 is built on cygwin and works with the kernel stuff. > > How about licensing that vxd separately with LGPL and the rest of > Plex86 with GPL? There's no problem for a GPL program to interact > in any way with an LGPLed one. This way Plex86 can be GPL and > take code from other GPL projects.
I think that would be fine. > However, since Bochs is also LGPL that makes me think there can be > something else that disallows using the GPL. Could be. > Maybe because nonfree OSes need to be run inside Plex86? I believe > that this isn't important, what is forbidden is to link non-GPL > software with GPLed one. This is allowed by the same thing that allows you to run non-free software on Linux. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
