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Re: Legal stuf, GPL, ...
> 1. I'm going to use GPL licensed development tools.
> 2. I consider to incorporate into my code GPL licensed pieces of
> software.
> 3. I'm NOT going to provide source code for my software.
>
> Is it legal?
> What can be done?
It's worth to check the exact license type. If it is LGPL, then
there is a solution. I understood that you don't CHANGE the GPL'ed
code, but USE it. If you can CALL functions, rather than INSERT
them into your code, then there is no problem. Even if you can't
do it, you can add hooks into the LGPL'ed code, and call these
hooks. Then you must publish the source of the hooks, but you can
keep the confidential code for yourself.
Is it what the authors of LGPL meant? Absolutely not. But this is
a 100% legal hole of this license.
Disclaimer: IANAL!
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Eli Marmor
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