On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 14:07, Nathan England wrote:
> My company is having problems with the GPL. We are concerned about the
> 'viral' effects of the GPL. Can we use GPL libraries in our software
> without open sourcing it?
> Are there libraries we can use that aren't GPL?
> We are 75% linux oriented, but would like a library that could cross OS
> boundaries. Are there any GPL libraries we could do that with, without
> open sourcing our code?
The GPL requires you to provide the source code. It doesn't say you have
to give it away though
(
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLRequireAvailabilityToPublic).
Boost is cross platform. According to the Boost Software License you can
distribute binary only copies of your software.
(
http://www.boost.org)
>
> We would like to use a lot of GPL stuff, but are genuinely afraid of the
> 'viral' effects.
Isn't 'viral' a term MS coined to make the GPL sound scary?
> Can someone point me to a good explanation of how it all works, so we
> don't include a GPL library we shouldn't...
See the GPL FAQ.
(
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL)
Bart
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