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Re: GPL (probably a FAQ)
- From: Adel Abushaev <adel dot abushaev at gmail dot com>
- To: graham_k <nabble at keellings dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:33:56 -0700
- Subject: Re: GPL (probably a FAQ)
- References: <24638096.post@talk.nabble.com>
GPL is viral, one drop of it will make everything else GPL, especially
when you redistribute the code.
When there is a technical and legal due diligence, they use tools that
scan your source code and if there is a GPL or public code that is
also matching in their database (which is huge, believe me, even sites
that had forums that are down for a few years by now) - they flag it.
Cheers,
Adel.
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:28 PM, graham_k<nabble@keellings.com> wrote:
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> Can someone tell me definitively - if I use a ten line GPLed function, say
> quicksort, in 500,000 lines of code which I write myself, do I need to GPL
> all of my source code and make the ode free for all?
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