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Hi, It depends also a lot on the code packaging. For instance if the GPLed library is packaged as a shared library on Unix or as a dll on Windows then you can link to it because it won't be part of the code you provide but will exist as a separate entity. Subtle but important ;-) Didier PH Martin mailto:martind@n... http://www.netfolder.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of mlepage@a... Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 6:54 PM To: xml-dev@i... Subject: Re: SAX C/C++ Implementations? On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 04:29:59PM -0400, David Megginson wrote: > <mlepage@a...> writes: > > > Oh, I forgot to ask: how do you cope with the fact that Expat is > > licensed as MPL/GPL? > > That's a problem only if you make modifications to Expat itself and > you want to redistribute the modified Expat but keep your > modifications closed-source -- an extremely rare situation, I'd guess. > > Simply using an open-source library doesn't force your app to be > open-source as well; at worst, you might need to stick the Expat > source code in a zip file somewhere on your CD. My understanding is, if you use GPL source without GPLing your code, you are in violation of the license. You can, however, use a GPL'd program, provided you don't link to it, and you provide the source. It is the LGPL that allows you to link to the library. I am not aware of any way to use GPL'd source without GPLing your own source, save not releasing at all. If this is true, then my understanding is wrong. -- Marc Lepage (aka SEGV) http://www.antimeta.com/ RTS game programming info, Minion open source game, etc. xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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