Is CocoaTech Violating the GPL?

elliotj asks: "In the latest version of their Finder-replacement product, PathFinder CocoaTech has included a terminal feature based on sourcecode from the GPL'd iTerm. They have made available the classes they developed from the iTerm sources, but not all the sourcecode for their product. Since iTerm is GPL (and not LGPL), shouldn't they have to make the ENTIRE codebase available? This is being debated on their forums. If this is true, what can we do to get CocoaTech to open up the rest of the code?"

Comments

Re:Nothing.

[Carnildo]

They are much more likely to remove the GPL'd code than they are to open up their product.

As was pointed out in the forums, they've got a third option:

Or licence it independently. There's nothing in the GPL to prevent you from comming to a seperate understanding with the author(s) of the GPL code, and using it under whatever terms you find mutually agreable.

The GPL is not "viral" and does not prevent rational solutions to cases like this. Let's not feed the FUDsters.

-- MarkusQ