Re: [open-cobol-list] Another open source cobol

[David Essex]

Mixing GPL open source with other licenses can be done.
However, it generally problematic as the terms and conditions of the GPL
are often violated either by convenience and/or misinterpretation.

I don't agree with your '... offer for the source' interpretation.
But then again I'm not a lawyer specializing in inter-jurisdiction (US
France EU) license issues.

In any case, the approach they have chosen to take seams suspicious.

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, they did not contribute to the
OC project.

Anyway, my 0.02 Euros worth.

Aoirthoir wrote:
> We compared the latest copy which they sent us in email. Those files 
> they changed, they are most welcome to add their copyright notice to.
> However, those that are unchanged, except for reformatting of the
> code, they do not own copyrights on, so it is disingenuous to modify
> the copyright statement in those files.
>
> As far as getting the source code, they only have to make an offer
> for the source. 
> So not sending it out with the binary is acceptable.

Erez Schatz wrote:
> ...
> The full text of the GPL (v.3) is ...
Actually OC is released under the GPL version 2 and LGPL version 2.1.


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