Hi,<br><br>As Chris pointed out, all front-ends *have* to use GPL v2. So the public domain door is closed for me.<br><br>However, as Peter pointed out, I am allowed to use free, NON-GPL third party source in my application. The author of the this code does not mind his source being distributed in this manner. <br>
<br>I also found this: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs</a><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Ben Morgan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:benpmorgan@gmail.com">benpmorgan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Public domain is not a license. It just means that you let *anyone* use it *however* they want. You are basically saying "I don't claim copyright on this". However, if your code links to a GPLv2 product, then that combination has to be available under the GPLv2. So if you make SB public domain, anyone could take out all sword references and replace them with something else, and sell it commercially. But as long as you distibute it linked to SWORD, you have to provide source code.<br>
<br clear="all">God Bless,<br>Ben<br>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Multitudes, multitudes,<br> in the valley of decision!<br>For the day of the LORD is near<br>
in the valley of decision.<br><br>Giôên 3:14 (ESV)<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:16 AM, mmital <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mital.manu@gmail.com" target="_blank">mital.manu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="verdana">Thanks. That answers the question (that is, SB frontend *has* to continue under v2 of GPL).</font></div>
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<div><font face="verdana">So I guess I need to contact the third party author and send him this list of compatible licenses: </font><a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses" target="_blank"><font face="verdana">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses</font></a><font face="verdana"> (asking him to look at the ones that are compatible with version 2 GPL)</font></div>
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<div><font face="verdana">If the third party code license can fit anything in the above list, then I think I can use it. </font></div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/16/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Little</b> <<a href="mailto:chrislit@crosswire.org" target="_blank">chrislit@crosswire.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><span><br><br>DM Smith wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">mmital wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br> I have been using Alkitab bible study lately. Fantastic piece of software, truly amazing.<br>
I also noticed that it is in public domain, while using sword engine that is in GPL v2, and other components that may have their own license (<a href="http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/LICENSE-alkitab.txt" target="_blank">http://www.kiyut.com/products/alkitab/LICENSE-alkitab.txt</a>)<br>
My question is: Am I permitted to release future versions of SwordBible under public domain? The reason is that I want to continue to use the sword library that is under GPL, while also making use of third party components that may not be under GPL (with the permissions from their respective copyright holders).<br>
Can this be done? Thanks for the clarifications.<br></blockquote>I can't answer for the SWORD library.<br></blockquote><br></span>You probably could have spoken for The SWORD Project. :) But I'll make it explicit.<br>
<br>Sword (the C++ library) is GPLv2 only (not GPL3, not PD, not BSD, etc.) and any software using Sword must, obligatorily be GPLv2. Personally, I like GPLv2 and wouldn't want us to change, but we're at a point where it's not even a choice that is open to us. We use code from 3rd parties that is GPL licensed, so we are as much obliged to use GPLv2 for Sword as you and other front end authors are obliged to use GPLv2 if you use Sword.<br>
<br>I recognize that there are those who would like other licenses for very valid reasons, but it's really not an option to Sword to license under licenses other than GPL.<br><span><br>--Chris</span>
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