<div dir="ltr">Hi Boris,<br>on his Haifux talk about legal issues, this is a tricky subject. The FSF compliance lab team ( <a href="http://www.fsf.org/licensing/team">http://www.fsf.org/licensing/team</a>) supplies paid counseling for companies which wish to do what you want.<br>
The tricky thing is the intent of the license. As I understand, even if you follow the license to the letter, but not to the spirit, a judge may rule against you in court.<br>I am not saying you can't do this, just that you need to legally verify your steps carefully (linux-il does not count).<br>
<br>Another thing Yoni said is that when you add exceptions etc. to the GPL, you take away freedoms, and it makes GPLv3 null and void. You have a special place where you can add non-legal personal statements, and that's it.<br>
<br>Orna.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/19 Boris Shtrasman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:borissh1983@gmail.com">borissh1983@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Howdy ,<br>
<br>
I'm a foss developer ,so i prefer to use tested techniques and good software.<br>
recently i found myself in a problem:<br>
I'm reimplementing good Foss solutions (parts of rsyslog , nmap , etc ... )<br>
<br>
I can speed up my work (C++ developer) by using allready created GPLv3 and MIT<br>
software.<br>
<br>
As i see i need to use rsync (any variant) in closed source project in the<br>
next manner:<br>
application A calls rsync to upload to a file to remote server.<br>
(it is GPLv3 license afaik).<br>
<br>
Reading the license i didn't get a definitive answer.<br>
<br>
So when in need to develop with close source what is the way to use GPL tools<br>
?<br>
As in plain binaries (no use in source code or source encapsulation).<br>
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