Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 10:38:48 08/17/05
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On August 17, 2005 at 13:27:55, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Eugene, > >On August 17, 2005 at 13:14:55, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On August 17, 2005 at 09:04:28, Thomas Mayer wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>> would you allow me to use your endgame database source code and implement it >>>> into the open source program Fruit/Toga II based on Fruit? >>>> Thanks for your answer. >>> >>>I just wonder if this is even allowed... Fruit-Toga is GPL, Nalimov-Code isn't >>>IMO... So when you include it, isn't it GPL then also ?? Just wondering... >>> >>>Greets, Thomas >> >>That only means that the person who want to incorporate my code into GPL'ed >>program must ask permissions from the authors of the code, and assuming they >>agree, release version with my code included under some other "open source" >>license. >> >>In any case my e-mail address is easy to find and everybody can ask licensing >>questions by e-mial. > >so to get that correct: when someone wants to include your code into a package >he can not release it under GPL anymore. In the case of Toga this would mean a >no no, because the original source of Toga is Fruit which is GPL. That's why >Toga must always be released with source according to the GPL rules. I think a >way for him could be to use a .dll and offer only this .dll in another download. >(As soon as he gets your permission to use it, of course -> and also the one >from Andrew which is forgotten here from time to time) Thanks god I have both, I >think I get it from you and Andrew just before CSVN Championships 2001... > >Greets, Thomas Once again: *authors* of the program distributed under GPL can release it under any other license they want. *You* cannot pick up somebody's GPL code and release it under any other license (or at least cannot do that without authors' permission). Thanks, Eugene
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