Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:20:30 +0200 From: "Peut Kotze" <PK@nanoteq.com> To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran@potentialtech.com>, "Socketd" <db@traceroute.dk> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: License questions Message-ID: <5AC9A01A8B1175418B4DF7F45DD94D5F1E9744@srvexch1.nanoteq.co.za>
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This FAQ touch on some issues regarding GPL, LGPL, BSD and others... http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/FAQ.html Hope it helps Peut Kotze -----Original Message----- From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran@potentialtech.com] Sent: 16 April 2003 03:23 To: Socketd Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: License questions I am not a lawyer. If you're running a business you should seek professional legal advice. Here's my opinion/experience, however. Socketd wrote: > I would like to use FreeBSD to make commercial and free software. For that > I use a number of programs and third-party libraries (I program in C++). My > guess it that there is no problem with using antuja, gnome, c++ doc and other > programs for this, but what about the libraries? Some of them are released > under the BSD license, but other under GPL or LGPL. > My question is, can I use libraries like dbconnect, common c++, gtkzthread > (which are all under the GPL or LGPL) to make closed-source, commercial > software? Maybe. You can do it with LGPL, but not with GPL. Not being able to _every_ create closed-source software from GPLed stuff is a fundamental precept of the GPL. > Also, if I want to release software under the BSD license, does the license > have to be included in every file I write? I'm not sure, but it should would be safer that way (no chance of "I didn't get the license with this distro") I think you should at least put in a notification that the software is distributed under the BSD license. --=20 Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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