14 Aug
2005
14 Aug
'05
02:25
On Saturday 13 August 2005 22:20, François Pinard wrote:
The essence is, you may not be attached by someone through GPL'ed software, and you may not use GPL'ed software to attach clients.
This I didn't understand. If you're talking about client/server architectures, then it's very wrong. The GPL does not restrict you from writing a closed source client to an open source server, or vice versa, Witness for example MS Outlook connecting to a postfix mail server, or gaim connecting to MSN instant messaging What you cannot do is use GPL libraries in a non-GPL binary, or vice versa, the 'linking' clause of the GPL forbids it. This is why they wrote the LGPL