Re: Binary Differencer/Patcher for OS X?
Re: Binary Differencer/Patcher for OS X?
- Subject: Re: Binary Differencer/Patcher for OS X?
- From: Dietrich Epp <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:45:16 -0700
On Friday, Apr 11, 2003, at 06:31 US/Pacific, Ben Dougall wrote:
GPL'd software isn't completely unusable for commercial projects --
there's no clause in the GPL that says "you can't use covered
software commercially," or that says "you can't make money off of
covered software," despite what many people opposed to the GPL would
have you believe.
separate but connected question:
would including a gpl'd app within your bundle constitute separate
from your app? that's a gpl'd app still self contained, not actually
mixed with your code, just included within the bundle, rather than
installed somewhere else on the drive.
i would have thought that'd be absolutely fine, but some people have
given me the opposite impression.
from an outside point of view, it would appear to be incorporated, but
you wouldn't have to go into it too deeply to realise the two are
separate.
The application is one piece of executable code. The GPL'd program is
another piece of executable code. They are independent - you can run
one without the other.
I see a lot of people have questions about free software. Note the
section in the FAQ labeled "Combining work with code released under the
GPL".
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
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GPL Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Section 3)
[...]
a)Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source
code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2
above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;
[...]
If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering access
to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent access to
copy the source code from the same place counts as distribution of the
source code, even though third parties are not compelled to copy the
source along with the object code.
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