Spotting GPL violations

[Jeroen Dekkers]

At Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:45:03 +0000,
Philip Webster wrote:
> I've contacted the author, and raised the points we have both covered on 
> this list. I can report that this is in fact NOT a GPL violation, or at 
> least so far as I can see. Here's how the RISC OS interface works:
> 
> GemPrint (the proprietary interface) links !Printers (the RISC OS 
> printing system) to GIMP-Print (a Free printing system which supports 
> many more models of printer than !Printers ever could.) !Printers is 
> proprietary, and GemPrint links to it using what are essentially RISC OS 
> libraries.
> 
> The link between GemPrint and GIMP-Print is done via a temp file. A RISC 
> OS application invokes !Printers by requesting that something is 
> printed, and !Printers calls GemPrint. GemPrint saves GIMP-Print 
> compatible data to a file, and GIMP-Print comes along later, sees the 
> file, and prints it.
> 
> GemPrint is careful never to directly invoke the GPL-licensed library at 
> any time.
> 
> As far as I'm concerned, this means there is no GPL violation. Unless 
> you can see anything wrong with the system as described above.

No, I don't see any problem either. I was actually suspecting that it
worked like this, but I couldn't judge from the homepage only.

Jeroen Dekkers