nanogui: Licensing


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Subject: Re: Re[2]: Licensing
From: Alan Cox ####@####.####
Date: 12 May 1999 18:47:00 -0000
Message-Id: <E10helu-0000VX-00@the-village.bc.nu>

> The problem is that in some situations people will want to write a
> proprietory application or window manager and link them directly into the
> server, for reasons of memory usage or that their platform doesn't have
> any inbuilt networking or multitasking support.

Good point. 

The NPL falls somewhere between the BSD "please run off with my code and
hide it" and the GPL "give me everything back" lines. You have to contribute
code back to existing  modules but you can link seperate binary products
against it.

Alan



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