On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Karsten Gerloff wrote:
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:37:20 +0100 From: "Kiran Raosaheb Patil" krp@biocentrum.dtu.dk To: office@fsfeurope.org Subject: Query about GNU-GPL
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Is there any way that I can distribute only the GPL covered libaries (/parts of libarries used by program) under GPL and rest under different license?
You aren't obligated to distribute the libraries. If the free ones are free in the sense of the GNU GPL, then anyone who wants to use your package will be able to get them somewhere. You may, of course, decide to distribute them as a convenience.
Including code from non-free libraries will make your package non-free.
It is not possible to make the program work without non-free libaries, unles I invest lot of time for implementing it by myself, which is not feasible for me.
Are you certain that there no free libraries that would serve the purpose? Would the owners of the non-free libraries consider changing their license to a free one? Could you formulate your code in such a way that it could be used by someone who'd be interested in implementing the functionality you need from the non-free libraries?
Laurence Finston http://www.gnu.org/software/3dldf/LDF.html