Re: bibindex should probably be GPLed.

[Francesco Tapparo <cesco@ntt.it>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 07:18:30PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 06:18:19PM +0100, Jens Ritter wrote:
> 
> > "public domain" means that you can publish it under the GPL. 
> > This term means that the ones who are copyright owners do not enforce
> > it but have placed it into the public domain. Which basically means
> > that you can do anything with such a piece of software (even copyright
> > it by yourself and sell it under NDAs and such). 
> > 
> > Releasing it under the GPL becomes an issue of politics (with regard
> > to the upstream maintainers). 
> 
> This political problem is my concern here.  I understand that I CAN (if I
> wish) release the modified sources under the GPL.  My specific question here
> is whether I HAVE TO release it under the GPL if I link with the GNU
> Readline library (which is GPL'ed).  Noticed that the original upstream
> code (which is in "public domain") has nothing to do with the Readline
> library, only my modifications are related to it.

Yes, you have to: every binary linked against a GPL'ed library must be
redistributed under GPL.

> 
> Thanks for your advise, Jens, but I think that I need more enlightenment.
> 
> -- 
> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
> 

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