[LAU] licensing fun, was Re: Yamaha Disklavier Pro grand piano

[Randy Kramer]

On Thursday 18 September 2008 09:38 am, drew Roberts wrote:
> Whatever the case may be, these are not GPL licensed programs and thus 
code 
> from them may not be mingled legally with other GPL programs. Right?

I may have missed something in the context of your statement, but 
various levels of mingling are allowed, depending on the other 
licenses.  The simple one is that GPL software can be agregated with 
non-free software, for example, for things like a distro (i.e., a 
compilation of software).

In addition, if the licenses are compatible, GPL software can call 
routines written with other (compatible licenses), and, iiuc, vice 
versa.  It really gets complicated and detailed--if you have specific 
questions, I'd probably suggest that you do some reading, or ask 
questions on a list devoted to the topic.

IANAL.

Randy Kramer
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