Re: Need a few testers

[rg.jones@rogers.com]

Andy McFadden wrote:
> Scott Alfter <salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > Does this mean the next version of CiderPress will be free as in speech,
> > then?
> >
> > (hfsutils was released under the GPL.  To legally distribute a version of
> > CiderPress that contains code from hfsutils, it would need to be released
> > under the GPL as well...unless you've made some other arrangement with the
> > author of hfsutils.)
>
> This gets into a very interesting area.  This sort of issue is one of
> the reasons why I have learned to thoroughly dislike the GPL.
>
> I'm currently using only the "libhfs" component of hfsutils.  The library
> is built and linked as an independent entity; access back into CiderPress
> is done through a callback interface I added.  Under the LGPL, I would
> only be required to make my changes to libhfs available.
>
> Under the full GPL, all of the code linked against it -- DiskImg.dll --
> would also need to be made available as source code.  The viral nature
> of the license could be taken to mean that anything that links against
> the DLL must also be released, which would encompass all of CiderPress.
>
> I've sent an e-mail to the author asking if he'd be willing to change
> libhfs to LGPL.  In the worst-case scenario, I have the original "stub"
> sources included, with #ifdef EXCISE_GPL_CODE bracketing, so it can be
> disabled.
>
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Hi Andy,

perhaps you already saw it but the hfsutils web page had this statement
on it "Alternate licensing terms may be negotiated by contacting the
author."

Glenn