Re: GPL & Subclassing

[Jason Harris]

Thanks for the responses everyone.  Gnustep is indeed LGPL'ed, which is why
I had some hope that this would be possible.  The option of pulling one or
two files from AppKit and putting them into my own (open-source) library,
linking that with my closed-source project, and providing source for the
open-source portion only had not occurred to me, and seems like a good idea.

But I've progressed pretty far rolling my own (I'm enhancing NSBrowser), so
it may not be necessary.

Thanks again!

Jason


Richard Frith-Macdonald Tried to Tell Me:

> 
> On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 02:38 PM, Marco Scheurer wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 02:58  pm, Dennis Leeuw wrote:
>> 
>>> I think you can't. As soon as you incorporate GPLed code you should
>>> release
>>> your code as GPL.
>> 
>> If the product using that code is to be released at all. You can use
>> GPL code in internal projects without releasing the source code.
>> 
>> Also, it was my understanding that GNUSTEP is LGPL, not GPL, ie that a
>> product can include the libraries and is not required to be released as
>> GPL (only changes made to the libraries should be released). In that
>> case what is the license of a single source file taken from the
>> library? Wouldn't it be possible to make another LGPL library, with
>> only that file, and use it?
> 
> I think so ... though of course you would have to distribute that new
> library with
> your product ... and therefore would need to release the source of the
> changes you
> made to the original code.
> 
>