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GNUstep is actually licensed under the LGPL, so applications that link against GNUstep libs are not required to be similarly licensed. If GNUstep were GPL, how
by xiaomai 16y ago
GNUstep is actually licensed under the LGPL, so applications that link against GNUstep libs are not required to be similarly licensed. If GNUstep were GPL, however, the app would also need to be GPL'ed.
This is how Trolltech used to charge money for commercial use of Qt. Qt was dual-licensed under the GPL and a commercial license, so GPL'ed software could freely use the library, but non-GPL software would have to pay for the commercial license.
- rbanffy 16y agoOops... Correct. GNUStep is LGPL. I should start writing * GPL as I do with * BSD As for linking proprietary code do GPL'ed libraries, the license is not explicit. However, according to Larry Rosen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Point_of_view:_linking_is_irrelevant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Poin...) linking, even statically, does not make a derived work (that would be subject to being GPL'ed by accident). Also, the GPLv3 has some different wording. I understand the GPLv3 makes it less likely a program linked to a GPL'ed library will be considered derivative.