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Can a GPL tool be made open source?
Unless someone in the comments disagrees, I’d like to point out that if you need to use a bit of GPL code at your devops / build layer, you can make that tool a separate application which CAN, potentially, be made open source w/o giving away the product your other-named tool builds. If you use GPL code at runtime, you gotta give out the source.
Is it OK to use GPL-licensed components in proprietary projects?
No Comments. Software licensed under the GNU General Public License is free software, and all software that builds on GPL-licensed components is also free and must also be licensed under the GPL. It is therefore often thought that GPL-licensed software is unsuitable for proprietary projects.
What does GPL stand for in the GNU license?
“GPL” stands for “General Public License”. The most widespread such license is the GNU General Public License, or GNU GPL for short. This can be further shortened to “GPL”, when it is understood that the GNU GPL is the one intended.
Can a library be used under both GPL and LGPL?
It is possible to use components or libraries under any of the licenses in a combined project with the statements of the licenses remaining valid. For example, if a project uses a library released under the LGPL and a library released under the GPL the project is subject to both licenses.
Can a GPL program violate a proprietary license?
GPL program is infecting and infected the parent and the child non GPL process (proprietary and even other open source license) from the perspective of law. Infecting means derived program violate GPL, infected means GPL program violate its own license.
Which is the best description of a source to source compiler?
A source-to-source translator, source-to-source compiler (S2S compiler), transcompiler, or transpiler is a type of translator that takes the source code of a program written in a programming language as its input and produces an equivalent source code in the same or a different programming language.
Is it legal to distribute GPL program as binary?
The legal problem (law) raise when you do an act of distributing GPL program as binary or library on non GPL OS. GPL program is infecting and infected the parent and the child non GPL process (proprietary and even other open source license) from the perspective of law.
Can a GPL library be distributed for commercial use?
You can distribute your application using a GPL library commercially, but you must also provide the source code. GPL v3 tries to close some loopholes in GPL v2.
Can a GPL license be used on a website?
Only a lawyer can give you proper legal advice. This very strongly seems to disagree if you are using it on a website, rather than re-distributing an executable: You may copy, distribute and modify the software as long as you track changes/dates of in source files and keep modifications under GPL.
When does your software need to be covered by the GPL?
If you release/distribute software containing GPL’d components (such as statically linked libraries), your software must be covered by the GPL. (This is the impression given for version 2; version 3 may be different.)
Is it legal to use GPL code in a proprietary, closed source program?
So: as long as it’s honest-to-God communication via userspace, where the calling proprietary code forks-and-execs the called GPL wrapper program, the GPL obligations of the called program do not extend to the calling program.
What does the GPL say about providing source?
If you choose to provide source through a written offer, then anybody who requests the source from you is entitled to receive it. If you commercially distribute binaries not accompanied with source code, the GPL says you must provide a written offer to distribute the source code later.