Bringing 3D Game Design To Kids

[Miriam Ruiz]

2008/2/6, Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>:

> If you wanted your software to be considered "Free Software" in the GPL
> sense (that which Ubuntu considers free), you would need to relax some of
> the above.  GPL software needs to be forkable, without proper credit.  That
> may seem hard to fathom, but this is an argument that has been had by
> countless people over a very long period of time (the most high profile,
> recent argument is perhaps the one between the XFree86 guys and the "GPL"
> people which included almost every linux distribution).

GPLed software requires you to give proper credit for whatever part of
the program you have made. You have to keep the copyright statements
in the program.

In any case, GPL is not the only free license that could be used, and
different licenses have really different requirements.

> If I understand correctly, the GPL says that if you distribute a piece of
> software like a library under the GPL and someone else links against it, if
> they make changes to your software, they'll have to distribute those
> changes under the GPL too, so you will get back their improvements to your
> software.  If their software is statically linked against yours they must
> distribute their software under the GPL too.

It seems to me that you might be referring to LGPL instead. If you
link to GPL code dynamically, you have to distribute your own code
with a GPL compatible license too, not only if you do statically.

Greetings,
Miry