Re: Possible GPL violation?
On Mon, Jun 14, 1999 at 07:32:40AM -0400, James Mastros wrote:
> Hey all...
> As I was looking for somthing completly different, I noticed somthing
> interesting -- a commercial RCS client/server for Windows (Microsoft, that
> is), that loudly claims to be based on GNU RCS -- but dosn't have source
> anywhere obvious. Anybody care to look into it further? It's at
> http://www.componentsoftware.com/ple.
>From http://www.componentsoftware.com/csrcs/faq/gnu.htm:
Is CS-RCS GPL complaint?
The CS-RCS front-end and GNU RCS are two separate applications that run as
separate Windows processes. The CS-RCS application is proprietary, but the
GNU RCS application is distributed under the terms of the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE (GPL). CS-RCS is not linked with RCS because such linking would
violate the terms of the GPL. The Free Software Foundation affirms that
running the two as separate processes, with a clean, well-defined general
interface between them, justifies the view that they are two separate
programs.
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