Re: DBDesigner4 and Kylix
--- Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> writes:
> Piotr Roszatycki writes:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'd like to package DBDesigner4 (See Bug#204475,
> > http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4/). It is very
> useful application written
> > with Kylix.
> >
> > The application itself is on the GPL.
> >
> > It can be compiled with trial version of Borland
> Kylix. My question - is it
> > enough for legal redistribution of compiled
> binaries?
>
> Unless you have a "linking exception" from the
> DBDesigner4 upstream
> authors, you are not allowed to distribute
> DBDesigner4 (in binary
> form) linked against any GPL-incompatible library.
> Are the Kylix
> libraries GPL-compatible -- for example, in terms of
> source code being
> freely distributable and modifiable? If you cannot
> distribute those
> libraries under the terms of the GPL, including the
> promise to provide
> source, then you can only distribute DBDesigner4 as
> source code.
>
However if the non-free library is part of compiler,
the GPL DOES allow linking any GPL code against it:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WindowsRuntimeAndGPL
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