Re: Dia plugins and C++

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> 
> Le Thu, May 02, 2002, à 12:32:41PM +0200, Pierre Pronchery a écrit:
> 
>> PS: another problem comes to my mind: according to Dia's license, as I'm
>> hacking on simple shapes, shapes in a plug-in, and now additional
>> features, do I have to share my work?  I do this for a company, which
>> seems to be OK if the source code is opened, but asks for written
>> permission for its use and redistribution...
> 
> You and your company must either comply with the GPL or not use this
> software at all; you have the choice. You'll probably want to solve this
> problem of choice before you even begin to solve the linker and compiler
> issues.

Certainly if you change Dia, you must either not redistribute it or send
out the source along with it.  Plug-ins I'm not so sure about, shapes are
probably not covered.  But IANAL.

-Lars

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