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Re: [Classpathx-discuss] Commerical use of classpathx code
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Hugh Greene |
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Re: [Classpathx-discuss] Commerical use of classpathx code |
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Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:09:54 +0100 |
Sadly all this is now moot as my boss chivvied me along to just do
something slightly more awkwardly, with SAX, but I thought I'd reply to let
you know a bit more about the issues from my point of view.
At 00:33 2001-08-22 +0100, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> For a definitive, final answer, you might want to wait for the project
> lead to ring in. Any comments, Nic?
I will be clairifying the position with classpathx as soon as all the
classpathx developers are happy to gpl+excep their code ...
The position with Dave's JAXP stuff, as I understand it, is that it IS
GPL+exceptioned ...
Well, for now the comments in those files in CVS (as seen from your
webpage) say "GPL", so I have to take it as such.
My understanding of changes is that you have to textually change
something before you get the GPL virus.
Nope, I just have to "link with" it:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL
I'm sure Java's class loading counts as "linking with" the loaded classes
so, unless your code is LGPL'ed or GLP+ex'ed, nobody can use it in a
commercial program, if they intend to distribute that program. It's
possible for someone to write some in-house software and, because they're
not distributing it, not have any problem with the GPL; but I'm not certain
that applies to my situation, so I can't do that.
I would ask you not to [remove bits] if you can avoid it though ...
I didn't necessarily want to remove bits, really, I just wasn't sure where
the boundaries were, and what minimal set of code I'd need to get working
the bit I wanted.
Hope that answers your questions, I am struggling with a change of
site (and of mailing system) so I'm not as communicative as I normally
might be... rest assured that if you ask stuff here I will
(eventually) get round to answering it.
Thanks to you all for your answers. ClasspathX looks like useful stuff so
I hope it gets a licence which allows commercial use :-) But if not, I may
yet end up using it in spare-time, free-software projects ...
Cheers,
Hugh