Hallo, Ivica Ico Bukvic hat gesagt: // Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
That's not the problem. The problem is, that the current Percolate license is not a free software license. Non-free licenses are incompatible with the GPL, which flext uses. By distributing a version of Percolate externals using their current license built with GPL-flext you would be violating the GPL! So you are not allowed to distribute your flext-Percolate ATM.
Please pardon my ignorance, but will this be the case even if I distribute the ported code as source-only (assuming that I get a permission to do so from the original authors)?
I'm not a lawyer, but as I understand it, source or binary doesn't matter: As long as you distribute a flext-external, source or binary, you have to distribute it as GPL. This is impossible without violating either the Percolate license or the GPL, because both are incompatible: the Percolate license isn't a free license.
Also, how does this affect Stk+flext, since Stk's license is not GPL either?
The Stk-license is perfectly compatible with the GPL, it's almost a public domain license and doesn't try to restrict use and distributiom in a way, as Percolate's license does. So there are no problems linking flext and stk.
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