[sword-devel] sword license questions

2002-04-01 Thread Nathan
My Look up app for OS X certainly isn't ready for public consumption. Part of that is getting the right license information and stuff bundled with the program. If I understand correctly, GPL allows me to do what I want with the client I'm writing - I can Copyright it to myself, keep my

Re: [sword-devel] sword license questions

2002-04-01 Thread Jerry Hastings
At 03:17 PM 4/1/2002 -0700, Nathan wrote: ... If I understand correctly, GPL allows me to do what I want with the client I'm writing - I can Copyright it to myself, keep my source to myself, and even commercialize it. But if I modify the API, I need to submit those changes back. Or am I

RE: [sword-devel] sword license questions

2002-04-01 Thread Chris Little
My Look up app for OS X certainly isn't ready for public consumption. Part of that is getting the right license information and stuff bundled with the program. If I understand correctly, GPL allows me to do what I want with the client I'm writing - I can Copyright it to myself, keep my

Re: [sword-devel] sword license questions

2002-04-01 Thread Nathan
Ahh... okay. I was thinking of LGPL (Lesser GPL), which from looking at the Sword license page, it clearly is not. So basically I have to GPL my client if I use the Sword API. I don't really have a problem with releasing my source code, I just need to get the right license information with

RE: [sword-devel] sword license questions

2002-04-01 Thread Nathan
Okay... but my client itself doesn't have to be GPLed? I have to make the source available under one of the compatible licenses. And I don't need to write GPL all over my software, right? If the source is available under GPL, do the binaries have to state that? Just curious about this stuff.