From: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington <jmd@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Unrar package might contain proprietary code.
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 22:19:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1e0n18g.fsf@lassieur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fuiwn34o.fsf@lassieur.org>
>> Like you say, the authors have taken GPL code from another project and incorporated
>> it into unrar - that is only possible if the the resultant work is GPL compatible.
>
> Or if the resultant work is illegal?
Actually, unrarlib is dual-licensed, so it is possible to use it within
a proprietary program (see http://www.unrarlib.org/license.html).
But I'll trust you that COPYING is enough :) Sorry for bothering you
then.
Clément
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-01 21:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-01 19:59 Unrar package might contain proprietary code Clément Lassieur
2017-03-01 20:20 ` John Darrington
2017-03-01 20:39 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-03-01 21:19 ` Clément Lassieur [this message]
2017-03-02 1:45 ` Alex Vong
2017-03-02 1:49 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-02 5:54 ` John Darrington
2017-03-02 6:13 ` John Darrington
2017-03-02 10:56 ` Alex Vong
2017-03-02 12:51 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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