Re: PostgreSQL and Objective-C
Re: PostgreSQL and Objective-C
- Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and Objective-C
- From: p3consulting <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:45:05 +0200
Le 16 avr., 2005, à 20:11, Andy Satori a écrit :
LGPL means you can link to it (dynamically), and ship it in binary
form if you don't modify the source (or do, and release those changes
back to the community) without also placing your code under the GPL.
The GPL, which I gather the MySQL client libraries now use, doesn't
even allow for that linking, if you incorporate GPL'd code in your
project, it's license overrules that of the derived project, and you
must release the changes and the derived code under the GPL.
Unlike literary copyright, and plagiarism, it is not subject to the
10% change rule, a single GPL'd file in a 1000 file project is enough
to invoke the GPL, and could be used to A) force the derived project
to Open Source, or B) after an expensive legal battle, and a public
relations black eye, remove the offending code and beg for
forgiveness.
Or C) pay the owners of the code obscene licensing fees.
Wrong:
the general rule is
"ask authorization to the owners to use their GPL/LGPL code under
others conditions"
to pay or not licensing fees is a product by product problem,
and to be correct a ( author ; product ; who ask ; for what usage )
problem.
assuming (obscene) licensing fees is - to say the least - misleading.
Pascal Pochet
email@hidden
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