Message-Id: Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" Organization: INTI To: Shawn Hargreaves , djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:02:32 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: GPLing Allegro-based progs? Precedence: bulk Shawn Hargreaves wrote: > Nathan Thompson writes: > >I have no trouble distributing only /my/ source code and letting the > >user download the Allegro library seperately if she wants to > >recompile, but I'd like to distribute the binary under the GNU Public > >License. I wonder whether your (Shawn's) Allegro copyright policy > >permits this? > > Absolutely. As far as I'm concerned, you are welcome to distribute a > copy of the Allegro sources and put those under the GPL as well if you > want, although I can't think what the point would be! I'm not interested > in restricting what you can do with it, because I think in the long run > a restrictive licence ends up limiting the creator as much as any of the > users... I guess you are right Shawn, but I'm not sure. GPL IS restrictive and if you interpret the things in the license in a special way (I don't know if is the right interpretation) your distribution policy can make collitions if somebody distributes Allegro as part of a GPL package. Perhaps I'm paranoic, but I saw it when Robert started to distribute the editor with RHIDE. As you can check I'm allowing that but I'm not sure about collitions between my distribution policy and GPL. Read the GPL license carefully. SET To the list: P.S. I'M NOT SAYING GPL is BAD DON'T REPLY defending GPL. I'm saying that IS RESTRICTIVE. ------------------------------------ 0 -------------------------------- Visit my home page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/6552/ Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET). (Electronics Engineer) Address: Curapaligue 2124, Caseros, 3 de Febrero Buenos Aires, (1678), ARGENTINA TE: +(541) 759 0013