On Thursday 18 September 2008 10:15:14 Randy Kramer wrote: > On Thursday 18 September 2008 09:38 am, drew Roberts wrote: > > Whatever the case may be, these are not GPL licensed programs and thus > > code > > > from them may not be mingled legally with other GPL programs. Right? > > I may have missed something in the context of your statement, but > various levels of mingling are allowed, depending on the other > licenses. The simple one is that GPL software can be agregated with > non-free software, for example, for things like a distro (i.e., a > compilation of software). Not mingled in that way. > > In addition, if the licenses are compatible, GPL software can call > routines written with other (compatible licenses), and, iiuc, vice > versa. It really gets complicated and detailed--if you have specific > questions, I'd probably suggest that you do some reading, or ask > questions on a list devoted to the topic. To be clear, code could not be taken from a GPL program and from these GPL fakes with exceptions and mixed to form a separate GPL program. Nor could code be taken from a GPL program and incorporated into one of the fake GPL programs and likewise it could not be taken from one of the fake GPL programs and incorporated into a GPL program. Whereas, if you had two GPL programs, you could do this. I am also not talking about use of ports and sockets and the like. Just mixing the code into one whole. > > IANAL. > > Randy Kramer all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
