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Re: Question regarding g++ and GPL in my own project
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 12:24:39PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>Michael Stather <michaelstather@nuzi.de> writes:
>>My question is, does the GPL permit to sell the final product without
>>releasing the source for my Basic<->C++ engine or the IDE, assuming
>>that they aren?t linked via the source to each other and theoretically
>>it?s possible to use any other compiler?
>
>I'm afraid that while it may seem intuitive to ask licensing questions
>here, this list is really not an appropriate place for this question.
>This mailing list is for the development of GCC, not for discussion of
>its licensing. (And licensing discussions tend to become high-volume
>and distract from other discussion.)
>
>As with all licensing discussions, the best (and only fully safe)
>answer is "you should consult with a qualified attorney." However, if
>you wish to get informal advice on licensing and the GPL in particular,
>the best place to go is probably the newsgroup gnu.misc.discuss, which
>was created in large part for that purpose.
This is excellent advice in general but just to add an additional
caveat: If the product in general is generated under the cygwin
environment on windows then there are also non-GNU GPL issues to
worry about.
The place to talk about them would be at the cygwin mailing list:
http://cygwin.com/lists.html .
I only mention this because of the mention of "Basic" which seems to
indicate that this could be a Windows product.
cgf