GUI goodness for your Mouse and Keyboard programming

Heike C. Zimmerer nospam08q2 at gmx.net
Tue Sep 30 14:32:13 UTC 2008


Gilles Gravier <gilles at gravier.org> writes:

> As you can see, it's VERY possible. In fact, VERY COMMON, to bundle open
> source and non open source code in ways that aren't infringing on the
> orignial open source license.

It is, indeed.  But ... the "terms and conditions" page reads:

| [...]  rights in and to the Software shall remain in YODASOFT
| TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD, except for the xosd library and the usb device
| driver, which are both installed into the 'hidpoint/lib' and
| 'hidpoint/driver' directory of the installation. These components are
| licensed under the GPL license.

Note that they mention the GPL (not the LGPL).  Such a combination is
clearly illegal - you would need the libs to be LGPL'ed to allow closed
source to be linked against them.

Apart from all that, I don't wish to see ads for whatever software
someone may have written here.





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