[impdev] ImpDev Digest, Vol 14, Issue 7

Ron Overdrive ronoverdrive at tehfurry.com
Sat Sep 18 16:46:46 PDT 2010


The use of system libraries I believe is out of the scope of LL's authority
in terms of determining GPL compliance. But just to be safe I have contact
licensing at gnu.org to find out so if LL tries the GPL violation card on us we
may have some ammo to defend ourselves.


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> Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 12:31:06 +0200
> From: Elektra Hesse <elektra at imprudenceviewer.org>
> To: impdev at lists.imprudenceviewer.org
> Subject: Re: [impdev] LLKDU
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> Hiya,
> I totally agree with Jacek about the distribution mistake LL made on KDU,
> they should have linked it in statically and bye bye problems.
> Anyway, my point now is another... if they don't want other viewers to use
> KDU, it seems pretty logical to me that they do so *also* to keep a little
> advantage with their crappy viewer over all others. Will they complain when
> I'll complete the Quartz integration on OS X ? Imp wlil use a KDU version
> licensed by Apple, is that a GPL violation too for them ? If this is so, I'd
> suggest to contact the EFF and let them know that LL is playing with the GPL
> a bit too much, limiting users "just because".
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> My 2 cents.
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> Ele
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