GUI goodness for your Mouse and Keyboard programming

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi, Heike!

Heike C. Zimmerer wrote:
> 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.
>   
No. You are wrong. The fact that they link to doesn't mean that they
have to be GPL. It's the fact that they are BUNDLED which would mandate
GPLing.

In this case, as you would see if you tried to install the product...
the drivers are not BUNDLED with the software. They are the object of a
separate download which takes place during installation.

>From a licensing perspective, this is completely separate from
bundling... and perfectly aligned with GPL.
> Apart from all that, I don't wish to see ads for whatever software
> someone may have written here
So we can't mail the mailing list to say that there's a new build of
flashplugin-nonfree, or nvidia drivers, or crossover office? Pity. I was
under the impression that users needed this kind of information...

Gilles.