21 Jun
2010
21 Jun
'10
8:20 p.m.
I think this is the closest to the scenario I am envisaging. There is
a host, which is non-Free and commercial, currently using a non-Free
plugin, which is packaged with it. This non-Free plugin gets
substituted by a Free plugin, which is free because, amongst other
things, it links to a GPL dynamic library. Is this breaking the
original GPL license of the dynamic lib the plugin links to?
I see for instance that in the case of LinuxSampler, this would
clearly be a breach of license, because of the extra condition
attached relating to commercial software. But what about plain GPL?
Victor
On 21 Jun 2010, at 12:34, Paul Davis wrote:
But I think that in the direction that you asked it
then I think its a
little more restrictive, with the same proviso that Chris offered: you
as a user of a GPL'ed plugin can do whatever you want with it,
including load it into a non-GPL host. However, I don't believe that
the developers and/or distributors of the host can arrange for this
happen in any "automatic" way, and would even be skirting a thin line
by packaging their host with GPL'd plugins that would be discovered
automatically.