Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.

3 of 594 comments (clear)

  1. Licensing by mukund · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What would worry me more is the distribution of MySQL under a commercial license using 3rd party code which is owned by the Free Software Foundation. Untar the source code (mysql-4.0.x.tar.gz) and look in the pstack/ directory.

    Granted they distribute it under the GPL license too, but it does not give them the right to distribute 3rd party GPL code under a GPL incompatible license.

    --
    Banu
  2. Re:No - Read the GPL FAQ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (Score: -1, Ass)

  3. Re:Coralized links by BobPaul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mod parent up. Coral could stop the slashdot effect