[LONG] (sub)licensing issue

Tomasz Wegrzanowski taw at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Apr 11 13:35:58 UTC 2002


On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 03:14:07PM +0200, Jerome Alet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've written a GPLed (not LGPLed) library which I know is currently used
> in a software licensed under the BSD license, so this is clearly a
> GPL violation since the other software license should be GPLed too.

You are wrong, it doesn't have to.
As long as they keep their version open, there is no violation of
licence. If somebody will ever take their code and close it,
or if they will close it, they will be unable to legally use your
library.



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