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Does Shareware X-Chat for Windows Violate the GPL?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-script-kiddies-get-kranky dept.

pc486 writes "The popular IRC client X-Chat has recently come under criticism as to whether or not the new shareware Windows version of the IRC client violates the GPL. All sorts of points are being persued, such as pure GPL Gettext linking, gtk translation worries, copyright issues, who's code is what and more." This is a complicated tale of GPL licensing, so beware.

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  1. Id don't think it breaks the GPL by arcanumas · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I saw this yesterday and i was wondering the same thing.
    But as far as i can tell, they are only selling the "binary' version of X-chat for windows.

    On the page it says that you are free to download the source code.

    So how is this any different from RedHat and others?

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  2. They can release their own code however they like by Jan-Pascal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sure, They can release their own code however they like, but not other people's code they use. That's exactly what the GPL is for: to prevent community work to be taken into a proprietary product and thus depriving the community from the enhancements made to its own code.