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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@n_o_p_o_r_k_a_n_d_h_a_m.abyss2.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: OpenALada
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 21:14:47 +0000
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:07:44 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> Luke A. Guest wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, some bindings are released under certain licenses which actually
>> stop the use of the library, i.e. a BSD licensed lib could have a GPL
>> licensed Ada binding, meaning that binding couldn't be used in a
>> commercial app. So yeah, it does matter and it should be specified.
> 
> Just to make sure, commercial applications can very well be covered
> by the GPL, the LGPL, or the GMGPL, or whatever license,
> if the paying customer agrees. Some do pay for GPLed software,
> and not every commercial entity can be shown to be a free rider,
> as I guess you are implying here as if it were a matter of course.

Well, I'm no lawyer but the thing that I'm interested in is being able to
build a piece of software and then sell the result in binary form.
Unfortunately, there are a quite a few libraries that I'll be binding to,
OpenAL, OpenGL (which I'm working on myself, so that'll most probably be
GMGPL), X, image libs, etc.

> Another way of using GPLed software in heavily commercial
> applications is running profitable in house server software.

Yeah, but I'm talking about selling something I have developed.

Thanks,
Luke.