I am a commercial software developer, and we are all for GPL code
etc. However we have proprietary code and all the rest.
MY question in a nutshell is this:
My interpretation of the GPL is that if we were to use a GNU public
license piece of software in our application (Sumatra PDF reader is
the
Spenceee writes:
> My interpretation of the GPL is that if we were to use a GNU public
> license piece of software in our application (Sumatra PDF reader is the
> software in question) then we would be required to distribute ALL the
> source code for our software?
Depends on the details. What do
On Jan 14, 1:30 pm, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Spenceee writes:
> > My interpretation of the GPL is that if we were to use a GNU public
> > license piece of software in our application (Sumatra PDF reader is the
> > software in question) then we would be required to distribute ALL the
On Jan 14, 2:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Jan 14, 1:30 pm, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Spenceee writes:
> > > My interpretation of the GPL is that if we were to use a GNU public
> > > license piece of software in our application (Sumatra PDF reader is the
> > > software in
On 2008-01-14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Our application, (the client part) has a list of documents in it,
> which the users can double click. We would like the double click to
> open a piece of software (currently a hosted adobe reader, which is
> slow, terrible and has a m
On Jan 15, 1:42 am, nicolas vigier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-01-14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Our application, (the client part) has a list of documents in it,
> > which the users can double click. We would like the double click to
> > open a piece of softwa
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Our application, (the client part) has a list of documents in it,
> which the users can double click. We would like the double click to
> open a piece of software (currently a hosted adobe reader, which is
> slow, terrible and has a mult
Tim Smith wrote:
[...]
> If, on the other hand, you mean that you might take the display code
> from the PDF reader, and put that code IN your program, so it is just a
> subroutine you call, then you are going to have to put your code under
> GPL.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/Licensing-HOWTO.html
nicolas vigier wrote:
[...]
> I think that if you make it clear that your software and the pdf viewer
> are separate programs, then there is no problem, there is no chance
> that your software can be considered a derivative work of the pdf viewer.
Think of an OS (execution environment) without pr
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tim Smith wrote:
> [...]
> > If, on the other hand, you mean that you might take the display code
> > from the PDF reader, and put that code IN your program, so it is just a
> > subroutine you call, then you are going
Tim Smith wrote:
But what he'd be distributing is the symposium itself. Whether B is a
derivative of A is irrelevant. He still needs permission to distribute
A, and GPL only gives that if the other works in the symposium are also
under GPL.
Not only does B fall under the GPL. So does the w
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