GPL specifics -- was: [Nel] Gamer question

[Vianney Lecroart]

Hi,

> Of course, I understand your need to keep Ryzom "secret"
> until it is done, releasable and sellable, so that you can put food on
your
> plates (and buy big cars for your Venture Capital people), yet, isn't this
> secrecy a violation of the GPL, since Ryzom is GPL'd?

No it isn't. If oneday, we *distribute* Ryzom program and if Ryzom uses a
GPL library, in this case, we have to give the source of Ryzom. But today,
we don't distribute Ryzom, so we don't have to give the source. Look the GPL
licence, it's based on distribution.

Vianney Lecroart
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kai Schutte" <skander@WPI.EDU>
To: <nel@nevrax.org>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 1:07 AM
Subject: GPL specifics -- was: [Nel] Gamer question


>
> On Thursday 13 December 2001 09:49, Vincent Archer wrote:
> > Whenever you get a GPLed program (and the license on the NeL library
> > is such that a program linked to it must be GPL too), under any form,
> > you must also be able to access/request/get a copy of the source.
> >
> > So anybody who has a Ryzom client has the right to access the source.
> >
> > Of course, until there IS an official client, almost no one outside
> > Nevrax has that right :)
>
> I don't want to drag this out eternally, but I see a little lapse of
> reasoning. Technically speaking, the development version of Ryzom is
probably
> currently being linked and tested with NeL, therefore, Ryzom must inherit
the
> GPL.
> Therefore, the current development code is in the public domain, therefore
> should be published. Of course, I understand your need to keep Ryzom
"secret"
> until it is done, releasable and sellable, so that you can put food on
your
> plates (and buy big cars for your Venture Capital people), yet, isn't this
> secrecy a violation of the GPL, since Ryzom is GPL'd?
>
> Wouldn't it be better then, for Nevrax, if NeL was LGPL, and thereby
making
> it legal (or rather, in accordance to the GPL) for you to keep Ryzom from
> public eyes?
>
> Just thinking out loud...
>
> -Kai
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