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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Legal Notice ServedRe: Legal Notice Served
From: BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 08:46:48 +0100 >Ahh, I didn't know plug-ins were considered derivative. They are derivitive because they use functions within the Rockbox core when they run (aka. dynamically linked) such as button_get() or lcd_drawline() BC >Joe > >Daniel Stenberg wrote: >>On Sun, 13 Jun 2004, Joseph Jones wrote: >> >>>Err, you could just have a GPL'd version, and a none GPL'd version... >>>They'd be the same source and binary, except that one didn't have the >>>GPL attached to it... >> >>Not really. Every plugin that is made for Rockbox is considered a >>derivate work[1] and as such it must be distributed with a GPL-compatible >>license. It doesn't necessarily have to be GPL, but the license may not >>"impose further restrictions" than GPL. >>So, if you distribute a Rockbox version or a rockbox plugin, you must >>provide source code upon request. >>[1] = http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLAndPlugins >_______________________________________________ >http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockbox Received on 2004-06-14 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |