Re: PostgreSQL and Objective-C

FROM : p3consulting
DATE : Sat Apr 16 20:45:05 2005

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
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