Re: GPL (probably a FAQ)

2009-07-24 Thread Robert Dewar
Ben Elliston wrote: This thread is off-topic for the GCC mailing list. Please follow up on gnu.misc.discuss or some other suitable forum. it is also full of appalling misinformation, so I suggest everyone delete it! There is good reason for keeping such threads off the list. Thanks, Ben

Re: GPL (probably a FAQ)

2009-07-24 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
This discussion is offtopic for the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list. Please send replies directly to me or to gnu-misc-discuss. Adel Abushaev writes: > GPL is viral, one drop of it will make everything else GPL, especially > when you redistribute the code. Please try to avoid using words like "vi

Re: GPL (probably a FAQ)

2009-07-24 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Jul 24, 2009, graham_k wrote: > Can someone tell me definitively - if I use a ten line GPLed function, say > quicksort, in 500,000 lines of code which I write myself, do I need to GPL > all of my source code and make the ode free for all? The FSF offers an e-mail based service to answer this

Re: GPL (probably a FAQ)

2009-07-23 Thread Ben Elliston
This thread is off-topic for the GCC mailing list. Please follow up on gnu.misc.discuss or some other suitable forum. Thanks, Ben

Re: GPL (probably a FAQ)

2009-07-23 Thread Gregory Casamento
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Mark Mielke wrote: ... snipped ... > to contribute to a project does not usually say "I refuse to participate in > your project because it has a BSD license." The GPL is evil and deserves to > be struck down. The GPL and LGPL achieve a delicate balance between th

Re: GPL (probably a FAQ)

2009-07-23 Thread Mark Mielke
On 07/23/2009 11:28 PM, graham_k wrote: Can someone tell me definitively - if I use a ten line GPLed function, say quicksort, in 500,000 lines of code which I write myself, do I need to GPL all of my source code and make the ode free for all? If you want a definitive answer you should conta

Re: GPL (probably a FAQ)

2009-07-23 Thread Adel Abushaev
GPL is viral, one drop of it will make everything else GPL, especially when you redistribute the code. When there is a technical and legal due diligence, they use tools that scan your source code and if there is a GPL or public code that is also matching in their database (which is huge, believe m

GPL (probably a FAQ)

2009-07-23 Thread graham_k
Can someone tell me definitively - if I use a ten line GPLed function, say quicksort, in 500,000 lines of code which I write myself, do I need to GPL all of my source code and make the ode free for all? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/GPL-%28probably-a-FAQ%29-tp24638096p24