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Re: GPL

• Posted by Steve Mosher <farq at KILN.ISN.NET> Feb 24, 2000
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Cuny, David@DSS wrote:

> Steve Mosher wrote:
>
> >> GPL is *way* too restrictive for Win32Lib
> >> - I don't plan on GPL'ing it.
>
> > How do you mean restrictive?
>
> If Win32Lib were GPL'ed, anything written in Win32Lib would be GPL'ed as
> well. So if you wrote something using Win32Lib and wanted to release it, you
> would have to release your source code as well. That's pretty much the kiss
> of death for any commercial developer.

        Not true. There was an 'LGPL' developed for libs. You can build
anything on top of a GPLd lib and keep the source to your self. It's when
you modify the library itself (and distribute it) that you must start
distributing sourcecode, but only to the library. And, as always, you can
take a GPLd program and modify it for your own use all you like, and if
you don't distribute it, you don't have to give anyone sourcecode.