At Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:07:19 +0000, Philip Webster wrote:
Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
At Sat, 11 Dec 2004 13:21:59 +0000, Philip Webster wrote:
Hi, A piece of software has come to my attention that may be violating the GPL. Details are as follows:
- The software is an interface (GUI, intermediary routines) between a
proprietary operating system and the Free printing system GIMP-Print.
- The company distributing the software is not offering source code, and
has not licensed the derivative work under the GPL.
The question is whether this is really a derivative work. "An interface" doesn't really say anything, it can be a library interface or it could talk over some protocol using sockets.
It appears to be a library interface.
I can't really see enough out of the descriptions. The problem is that I don't know anything about GIMP-Print or RiscOS. I think the only way to be sure whether it's a GPL violation is to download the code and look at it.
Jeroen Dekkers