RE: [Help-glpk] Command-line and GPL

[Meketon, Marc]

I have to disagree.  As another example, many people use Eclipse (which
is free) as the IDE to build commercial (non-free) software.  The
Eclipse foundation is happy to give out their software for commercial
users.

Not sure if this is the best venue for continuing this conversation. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Makhorin [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:17 PM
To: Meketon, Marc
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Help-glpk] Command-line and GPL

> People build commercial applications all the time under Linux.  These 
> applications implicitly call the Linux kernel, and perhaps explicitly 
> call on a variety of commands (which are really applications) like 
> "mv", "cp" and so on.  Yet these commercial applications are not under

> the GPL.  I think Luca's situation is similar.

I do not think so. Commercial software does not mean non-free (i.e.
proprietary) software. On the other hand, if someone does not want to
make his software free, he is free to make it non-free. However, in this
case it would be fair not to use free software at all, wouldn't be? It
seems to me this is the main point of GPL. (Sorry for my bad
English.)

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