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| usenet@sta.samsung.com 2006-11-30, 7:04 pm |
| Can someone shed some light on the licensing of the following software
packages? If we use them in our software, are we obligated to release
our software back into the public domain?
Thanks,
Song
=>Thomas Pfau's ftplib
=> Boost
=> Postgresql/libpqxx
=> libXML/libxml++
=> apache Tomcat Server/Apache Axis CPP
=> JFreeChart
=> Parsifal Software evaluateExpression
=> Philipp Bouillon's Logging-Library
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| Paul Lutus 2006-11-30, 7:04 pm |
| usenet@sta.samsung.com wrote:
> Can someone shed some light on the licensing of the following software
> packages? If we use them in our software, are we obligated to release
> our software back into the public domain?
That is an easy question to answer, but you must do the detail work:
Each of the listed software packages either IS or IS NOT released under the
GPL.
If a particular package IS released under the GPL, you can use it in your
own project, but you must release your own source. This does not mean
"release into the public domain", as you seem to think. Publishing a source
code listing does not mean "release into the public domain".
If a package IS NOT released under the GPL, things would get complicated.
You would have to sort out the issues on a case-by-case basis.
Conclusion? Avoid things that are not released under the GPL.
> =>Thomas Pfau's ftplib
> => Boost
> => Postgresql/libpqxx
> => libXML/libxml++
> => apache Tomcat Server/Apache Axis CPP
> => JFreeChart
> => Parsifal Software evaluateExpression
> => Philipp Bouillon's Logging-Library
Some of these packages I recognize as being under GPL, others I just don't
know. You will have to do some research.
--
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com
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