[Typo3-dev] Non-GPL licence on a GPL extension

[Martin Kutschker]

Elmar Hinz schrieb:
> Martin Kutschker wrote:
> 
>>
>> Why would the user be exempt from the licence?!!
>>
>> Everyone including developers and the end users have to obey the 
>> licence rules which say no to linking with non-GPL compatible code.
>>
>> If the user could mix GPL and non-GPL code there would be no point in 
>> using the GPL at all.
>>
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> the license is short enough and worth to read it all.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
> http://www.gnu.de/gpl-ger.html
> 
> I find no word about restrictions in usage. IMHO everthing GPL covers is 
> distribution.

No they cover copying, distribution and modification (2nd paragraph 
right after the preamble). So if you get yourself (as a user) a copy of 
TYPO3 and want it to modify it to work with 3rdp party code you have to 
obey the licence.

Masi