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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. Never heard of it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But then, I'm still using Xircon, and it was made in 1997.

  2. fucking cuntz! by Graspee_Leemoor · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Your recent submissions

    Here are your recent submissions to Slashdot, and their status within the system:

    * 2004-08-29 13:03:17 Xchat for win32 goes shareware (IT,Software) (rejected)

    graspee

  3. Speaking of Which..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If you've ever seen the movie High Fidelity the main character decides to organize his albums not by title or genre, but by autobiographical so that if he wanted to find an album he had to remember when he bought it. Well just for fun I decided to do the same thing with my porn collection using iPhoto. Now I can see how my tastes in porno have changed and grown more sophisticated over the last 7 years. And wow I was into some pretty kinky shit as a 12 year old.

  4. MOD PARENT UP!!!!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    haha that was the funniest shit ive read on slashdot EVER! MOD THIS PARENT UP NOW!!!!!!

  5. 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
  6. Pronunciation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hi

    I've been wondering, is there a link to an mp3/ogg/au/wav file somewhere that gives a definitive pronunciation to the exclamatory word: 'w00t'?

    Thanks in advance

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

    (Score: -1, Ass)

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

    Mod parent up. Coral could stop the slashdot effect