Re: A Licensing Question

From: Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:48:38 +0000
Subject: Re: A Licensing Question
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Chris, Sheesh. I'd read it about 5 times but revisited just now. Somehow I missed the key phrase "which are themselves interpreted.". Here's the full relevant excerpt: "Another similar and very common case is to provide libraries with the interpreter which are themselves interpreted. For instance, Perl comes with many Perl modules, and a Java implementation comes with many Java classes. These libraries and the programs that call them are always dynamically linked together. A consequence is that if you choose to use GPL'd Perl modules or Java classes in your program, you must release the program in a GPL-compatible way, regardless of the license used in the Perl or Java interpreter that the combined Perl or Java program will run on. " That answers my question. If following the scenario I described previously, my code would have to be GPL'd as well. Thanks! John

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