Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 10:41:46 08/17/05
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Hi Eugene, thanks for clarification, so my initial guess was more or less correct... Greets, Thomas On August 17, 2005 at 13:38:48, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >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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