[Glade-users] Creating Closed Source Software using Glade?

[david.simons at gmail.com (David Simons)]

Tristran,
Thanks for your help!

I do think it might be helpful to add a note in the top of
http://glade.gnome.org/ to inform users that they can make open or closed
source applications with Glade.  This could be very similar to the GTK+
license description here: http://www.gtk.org/index.html

*"GTK+ is licensed under the GNU LGPL
2.1<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html>allowing
development of both free and proprietary software with GTK+ without
any license fees or royalties.*"

Thanks again,
David
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Tristan Van Berkom <
tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:23 PM, David Simons <david.simons at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> [...]
> > Results of my investigation so far:
> > 1. I've found one website that suggests that libglade is LGPL -
> > http://freshmeat.net/projects/libglade/ , but nothing of this is linked
> on
> > the website from Glade's website -
> > http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/libglade/
> > 2. My understanding is that I could use Glade to create XML, which would
> be
> > interpreted using the libglade. Would the XML created by Glade need to be
> > open source?
>
> No, if you create an image with photoshop, does the created image
> fall under the photoshop licence ? or is photoshop infringing on
> any licence by opening and modifying a file ?
>
> Using libglade means you are using an LGPL library, and therefore
> does not infect the application with the licence.
>
> I have this fresh on my mind since I am about to relicence the
> core of the glade tool to LGPL, this will only mean that
> commercial IDE's could use the Glade core without being
> infected by the licence, but has no relevance to the generated
> xml files.
>
> Hope this answers your questions :)
>
> Cheers,
>                 -Tristan
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