Re: KDE gone, Lyx next ?

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Geoffrey L. Brimhall <brimhall@pobox.com> wrote:
> I find this interesting because there is quite a bit of various
> efforts to port GPL'd code and programs to the MS Windows
> environments. Legally, this would imply stepping very carefully
> because who knows what proprietary libraries might be linked to get
> the port to work. Am I correct in this statement ?

The GPL contains a special clause so that you get to modify it for use on
a proprietary system which someone else provided, as long as all users
of that system would have access to that proprietary stuff.  You can
even distribute object code with proprietary pieces embedded in it, as
long they're these essential sorts of pieces and anyone can have a copy.

So you have to be careful, but not outrageously so.

-- 
Raul