Re: GPL

On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 00:02, Bart Oldeman wrote:
> >      Also, about commercial software. As I understand, GPLed software may be
> > used/distributed with (not included, but used by/with) commercial software.
> > For example, may I make some commercial (i.e. closed and/or restricted in
> > distribution/running) program, which will run under FreeDOS (for example,
> > some disk restoring program, which will run from floppy with FreeDOS) or run
> > other GPLed program (say, archiver to make backups)?
> 
> Yes. You are not allowed to link GPLed code with non-GPL-compatible code,
> that's it.

Unless the code you are linking to is LGPLed ... in which case you are
allowed to link against it, but you must provide a linkable binany of
the proprietary code so that people can link it against newer versions
of the LGPL library.

This is how nVidia and other companies get away with linking binary only
Linux kernel modules for devices.

Paul