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"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> If I'm not wrong, the GMGPL is only about linking. Apart of that, the
> source itself is still under GPL, which means if someone modify his
> source, he/she have to either redistribute the modified source with
> the  application, at not charge (disabling any hope of selling, even
> for a  single cent, what ever the amount of work done), or else,
> he/she have to  not distribute it at all.

There would surely be a case for redistributing just the modified
library source, and not the proprietary application.

But this viewpoint may explain why some corporate users of the Booch
Components asked for bugfix releases of the whole library rather than
just patches.