Re: GNUPLOT breaks GPL
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Edward Betts wrote: > * Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to > * distribute the modified code. Modifications are to be distributed > * as patches to released version. Ahem... it looks like gnuplot falls in the same category as pine and qmail... we could not even distribute binary packages of it... :( Greg -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://www.cab.u-szeged.hu/local/linux/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GNUPLOT breaks GPL
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Edward Betts wrote: > > > * Permission to modify the software is granted, but not the right to > > * distribute the modified code. Modifications are to be distributed > > * as patches to released version. > > Ahem... it looks like gnuplot falls in the same category as pine and > qmail... we could not even distribute binary packages of it... :( Now that I read it again... it says this just about the code... but I could not find anything there about distributing modified binaries... It is not explicitly allowed... so is it allowed at all ? Greg -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry. Egy pingvinre gyakorlatilag lehetetlen haragosan nezni. HuLUG: http://www.cab.u-szeged.hu/local/linux/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GNUPLOT breaks GPL
> "eb" == Edward Betts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "gm" == Gergely Madarasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "jt" == James Troup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: eb> GNUPLOT is not GPL, so it can not be linked with eb> libreadline. I am I right or drastically mistaken. (I must eb> point out that while I am running a partly hamm system, my eb> gnuplot is still from bo.) i'm gnuplot's debian maintainer. there were two opposite opinions about gnuplot's linking to libreadline. after some discussion i've dropped the gnu libreadline support. so gnuplot doesn't link to libreadline anymore. james troup has already pointed that out. [ anyhow, gnuplot's internal readline facility is pretty nice as well so the gnuplot hasn't lost much of its performance by leaving out the gnu readline library. ] jt> And BTW, gnuplot doesn't break anything. We would be jt> violating the GNU GPL by distributing a gnuplot linked with jt> readline but gnuplot is not per se breaking the GNU GPL. i think you are right. gm> Now that I read it again... it says this just about the gm> code... but I could not find anything there about distributing gm> modified binaries... It is not explicitly allowed... so is it gm> allowed at all ? i've also used some "official" patches and have checked this procedure with the upstream gnuplot community before the freeze. they agreed and were even willing to send more recent "official" patches so that the debian gnuplot freeze version would be as stable as possible :-). i think we are allowed to distribute the gnuplot binary. cheers -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
