I was speaking in terms of consulting people! I have been around Open
Source for 8+ years and worked on many GPL projects and have had extensive
discussions with lawyers about the GPL. I do know what it says and what it
doesn't say and what you can and can't do.
In fact I am currently involved in a huge lawsuit by a major international
corporation over a GPL project. So I do know exactly how the GPL works, and
what it does and doesn't cover under current law, as well as what things
are very grey and nebulous under the current law in the US.
I have learned way more about the legal system in the last year that I ever
wanted to know, so please don't tell me how it does and doesn't work.
Tim Jung
System Admin
Internet Gateway
tjung@igateway.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert L Mathews" <lists@tigertech.com>
To: <dev-list@opensrs.net>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: GPL Issues
> At 4/14/03 1:34 PM, Tim Jung wrote:
>
> >I know that any code work that I do to the OpenSRS
> >client is, and has to be, released under the GPL, but I am not so sure
> >other people know that.
>
> This is not the case, although it is a common misconception:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic
>
> As long as you are only using your modifications internally, you do not
> need to make your changes public.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Tue Oct 19 2004 - 23:37:41 EDT