[Gambas-user] eXtremgui is now downloadable again

[olinux]

It's a real problem because,

- when i write a prog with gambas for my compagny, it is for commercial
use (inside the compagny but to generate some cash) and this cross the
QT GPL Licence !!!!

this mean than all products developed with gambas are not usable in
professional environment.....


regards
Olivier Coquet
excuse me for my poor english.

Le jeu 22/04/2004 à 15:54, Rob a écrit :

> On Thursday 22 April 2004 03:37, Daniel Oxley wrote:
> > Rob, I think we all already know the answer to your
> > questions.......
> 
> Olivier may not have known the questions needed to be asked, 
> though.  I think people need to be aware now (while Gambas is 
> still in its infancy) that if you check off the "gb.qt" 
> component in your project, you are (from a legal perspective) 
> probably linking against Qt/Free and thus your Gambas project 
> probably must be GPL.  From the GPL FAQ:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL
> 
> Q.  If a programming language interpreter is released under the 
> GPL, does that mean programs written to be interpreted by it 
> must be under GPL-compatible licenses?
> 
> A. [..] when the interpreter is extended to provide "bindings" to 
> other facilities (often, but not necessarily, libraries), the 
> interpreted program is effectively linked to the facilities it 
> uses through these bindings. So if these facilities are released 
> under the GPL, the interpreted program that uses them must be 
> released in a GPL-compatible way. [...]
> 
> (end quote)
> 
> Now, the GPL FAQ is not itself part of the GPL, but it does 
> reflect the intent of the GPL's creators and the intent of 
> people who license their code under the GPL unless otherwise 
> noted.  So personally, I wouldn't take the risk of releasing a 
> closed-source Gambas program that used the Qt module.  I suppose 
> you could ask Trolltech what their interpretation of the GPL is 
> in this case, but I think we all know again what their answer 
> will be, as they are not a charity for commercial endeavors.
> 
> As an aside, Gtk and wxWidgets are both LGPL, meaning this issue 
> would not exist if you used them (LGPL lets you link closed 
> source programs against LGPL'ed libraries.)  So those who would 
> like to distribute closed-source Gambas programs should consider 
> contributing to the Gtk or wxWidgets component efforts that may 
> or may not still be underway.  I am happy with Qt myself but I 
> understand there are people who don't want to GPL their Gambas 
> projects.
> 
> If someone could translate the gist of what I'm saying into 
> French, it might help Olivier and other people understand this.  
> It is very difficult to discuss legal ramifications across 
> languages (at least for me.)
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
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