Re: GPL-script to be run on a non-free interpreter
Ralf Treinen <treinen@club-internet.fr> wrote:
> Can someone point me to examples of such exception clauses to GPL?
>
> -Ralf.
Not exactly the same case, but xwatch is GPLed and has an exemption
clause to link to a non-free library. The add-on is the third paragraph
below:
XWatch - a tool to monitor logfiles and display new logs in an X window.
Copyright (C) 1995 Karel Kubat. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
You may link this software with XForms (Copyright (C) by T.C. Zhao and
Mark Overmars) and distribute the resulting binary, under the
restrictions in clause 3 of the GPL, even though the resulting binary is
not, as a whole, covered by the GPL. (You still need a separate license
to do so from the owner(s) of the copyright for XForms, however). If a
derivative no longer requires XForms, you may use the unsupplemented GPL
as its license by deleting this paragraph and therefore removing this
exemption for XForms.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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