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

[Martin Kutschker]

Martin Seebach schrieb:
> fre, 25 11 2005 kl. 14:09 +0100, skrev Martin Kutschker:
> 
> 
>>>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.
> 
> 
> The GPL does not limit you in how you can modify the code. If, however,
> you distribute the changes it *must* be within the GPL.
> It is not against the GPL to link eg. the GNU tools against the SUN
> Solaris (non-free) libc using the SUN Studio (non-free) compiler. It is,
> however, against the GPL to distribute this binary.

As I have posted OS, OS libs and compilers are exempt from the linking 
limitations.

Masi