Matchbox RC2

[eluser]Ethan Dunham[/eluser]
Zacharias-

I only posted after reading this post from a perl developer:

http://encodable.com/tech/blog/2006/02/2...l_Software

Apparently when you release software that has GPL'd components, you are required to GPL the entire software system. Can't just have parts GPL and the rest proprietary.

From the author of the GPL himself via this page: http://www.interesting-people.org/archiv...00055.html

"However, the GPL does forbid use of the code in *proprietary*
(non-free) software. The GPL does not allow adding any additional
restrictions to any program that includes the code. So any program
that incorporates the GPL-covered code, whether it be commercial,
academic, or avocational, must be released as free software. As a
whole, it must be released under the GPL (though you can put a more
lax GPL-compatible license such as X11 on the parts you write, if you
wish)."