From: "H. Simpson" Date: 2004-08-06T04:36:28+09:00 Subject: Re: Amazing GUI toolkit with visual designer & Ruby Integration Lothar Scholz wrote: > Hello Richard, > > > RL> The reason I ask is because I myself am unsure of the 'details' of the > RL> modified LGPL that FOX is released under, and would be worried if I > RL> ever wanted to modify the FOX library to sell a product. > > RL> I've asked Jeroen and Lyle before, and they've said that all they > RL> would require of me was to credit the creators (them) and reference > RL> their products (URL) in my applications (which I do) - and I could > RL> build applications using FOX and FXRuby to be sold without legal > RL> concerns. > > If you modify the fox source everything you should need to do is do a > "diff -r fox-1.3.7 myfox-1.3.7 > patch.diff" und put the patch.diff > on your website. Neither the LGPL or the GPL makes it necessary to > give away a complete and working build system etc. > Lothar, when you look up at the sky, what color is it? Surely you live in a different universe than I... So you want to add an ABOUT box or splash screen to your massive closed-source application you spent your entire life-savings building? 1. Download Fox-Toolkit. 2. Make a few changes to it Fox-Toolkit to make it work the way you want. 3. Statically link it to your multi-million dollar application. 4. Try to sell your app to investors. 5. Watch investors tell you to go fuck yourself during due-diligence when they see that you statically linked to an LGPL or GPL project. 6. Congratulations, you can point to the wonderful advice given by Lothar on the internet and watch the investors laugh at you. I'm sorry to be harsh but you can seriously screw people up financially with really bad advice. Especially if they trust your advice and don't follow up with qualified attorney about legal matters... You seem very smart about other things so maybe someone gave you bad advice about LGPL and GPL--perhaps you should read them and find out the truth.