Re: GPL and closed source

2001-07-12 Thread David Johnson
On Thursday 12 July 2001 04:43 am, Stephane Routelous wrote: > Hello, > > Let's say that I've developped a programm under GPL. > Is it possible to create Closed-source plugins for the GPL programm and > sell them ? The opinions are all over the place on this one. It doesn't matter how legal it i

RE: GPL and closed source

2001-07-12 Thread Dave J Woolley
> From: Carlo Wood [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Selling closed source plugins wouldn't be illegal anyway, > but wouldn't it be illegal for the buyers to link the bought > plugins with the GPL-ed opensource? If so then that means that > My impression was that the FSF only really cared about re-

Re: GPL and closed source

2001-07-12 Thread Henningsen
While I'm even less of a lawyer than most folks here, I disagree. My opinion is that you *can* write a closed source plugin to work with a published interface, and distribute it for a fee, and nobody can stop you from doing that. I also remember having read here that RMS is of the opinion that if

Re: GPL and closed source

2001-07-12 Thread Carlo Wood
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 07:39:21AM -0700, Greg Herlein wrote: > > Let's say that I've developped a programm under GPL. > > Is it possible to create Closed-source plugins for the GPL programm and sell > > them ? > > If you own the copyright to the larger framework, this can be > done legally. You

Re: GPL and closed source

2001-07-12 Thread Greg Herlein
> Let's say that I've developped a programm under GPL. > Is it possible to create Closed-source plugins for the GPL programm and sell > them ? If you own the copyright to the larger framework, this can be done legally. You'll want to make sure that you either completely own, or have disclaimers