Re: ANN: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Mon, 28 May 2012 21:23:09 +0200, Ludovic Brenta  
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> On Mon, 28 May 2012 13:36:53 +0200, J-P. Rosen wrote:
>>> Le 28/05/2012 12:08, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
>>>> This release is packaged for Windows, Fedora (yum) and Debian
>>>> (apt). The software is public domain (licensed under GM GPL).
>>> Just to be picky: if it's licensed under GMGPL, it's free software,
>>> but it's not public domain. Public domain means that you give up all
>>> your intellectual rights (possibly allowing someone to take your work
>>> and putting a restrictive license upon it).
>>
>> I thought GMGPL allowed derivative works to be restricted as anybody
>> wanted?
>
> The GMGPL or, since GCC 4.4, GPL3 with Runtime Library Exception, allows
> people to distribute *binaries* including (aka linked with) your
> libraries under whatever license they wish.  They cannot, however,
> redistribute the *sources* of your library under whatever license they
> wish.  If they choose to redistribute the sources, they must do so under
> your original license terms and with your copyright.

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.

While I may be wrong with that tricky part (GPL is all about tricks  
everywhere :-P ). If I'm wrong, just tell, would be glade to know.

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