Le dim 31/08/2003 à 23:45, shane stixrud org a écrit :
> On 31 Aug 2003, Féliciano Matias wrote:
>
> >
> > For me, this is clearly violating GPL.
> > A GPL/BSD program, in binary or source form, can be freely (as in beer
> > and speech) used. I can copy it to another machine and use it.
>
> I believe the only GPL requirement that RedHat must comply
> with is to provide source code on request. I have seen nothing in the GPL
> which states binaries created from GPL source cannot be restricted in use,
> so long as source is provided on request.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
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either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is
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GPL applies to "translated into another language" (source to binary).
Are you saying that a GPL library in binary form is not GPL ?
RedHat have removed MySQL 4 from rawhide (and RHLP) because
libmysqlclient is now a GPL library (LGPL in MySQL 3).
So, php can't not be linked to libmysqlclient V4 :
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
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We recommend that you not use this license for anything except
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This license is used by one part of PHP4. It is a non-copyleft
free software license which is incompatible with the GNU GPL,
and has practical problems like those of the original BSD
license.
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And what about programs that don't have a binary form ?
> Whether this act is moral is
> totally a different question, whether the authors of the GPL intended this
> use I do not know, but my reading of the GPL suggests RedHat has the
> "legal" right to do this.
>
I am not really sure.
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Féliciano Matias <feliciano matias free fr>
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