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
> 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-
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
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
> 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
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