Re: [ANN] Lua Conference Bot 0.1

[Ashish Shrestha <axhixh.rss@...>]

quoting:
Not exactly. It means you must release your program under a license
compatible with the GPL (more precisely, compatible with one or more
GPL versions accepted by all the rest of the code in the combination
that you link). The combination itself is then available under those
GPL versions.


The last part says the combination itself is then available under
those GPL versions.



On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Luiz Henrique de
Figueiredo<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:09 AM, Luiz Henrique de
>> Figueiredo<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> > I don't want to launch an off-topic discussion on license religion, but
>> > I think that you don't need to release code as GPL simply because it
>> > links to GPL code, if you don't include the GPL code in your package.
>> >
>>
>> The wikipedia quick-info box for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL
>> states "Linking from code with a different license: No", which would
>> imply that you cannot link non-GPL code against GPL code. I'm sure
>> that the full legalese of the license thus states that derivative
>> works of GPL code must themselves be GPL and that linking against
>> creates a derivative work.
>
> The GPL FAQ says otherwise:
>        http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingWithGPL
>