Follow-up Comment #8, task #16050 (project administration): [comment #7 comment #7:] > In my case, the only parts of the program that are GPL‐licensed are written by me, and I’m almost certaint that the GPL cannot constrain me from distributing my program in any way, because I wrote it myself.
Quite right; but you shouldn't distribute proprietary software, it would be unethical. > In particular: > > - I don’t want to allow people to create derivations of my program that are proprietary. > - I don’t mind if people can’t distribute the linked binaries of my program because of the non‐GPL‐compatible licensed dependencies. > - However, I don’t want for it to be illegal for users to link and use my program by themselves because it has non‐GPL‐compatible dependencies. You can add exceptions for certain libraries, https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs However, your users shan't be able to add third-party GPL'ed code without the same exceptions to your program; in other words, your program will be effectively GPL-incompatible, and GPL compatibility is a hosting requirement in Savannah. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?16050> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.nongnu.org/
