[BRLTTY] Commercial license

Tom Masterson kd7cyu at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 12 15:41:56 EDT 2016


Where it gets into lawyer land (grey areas) is if you actually embed the 
brltty code in your code.  Is that considered modifying brltty?  I don't 
think in that case you could actually use it without modifying brltty but 
if you could??

THis is the type of thing lawyers love.

Tom

On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Samuel Thibault wrote:

> Samuel Thibault, on Mon 12 Sep 2016 21:19:20 +0200, wrote:
>> There are a *lot* of shipped computers which run both GPL programs and
>> proprietary programs.
>
> Think about all the TV sets, DSL routers, etc. which make abundant use
> of GPL software along with their own user proprietary interfaces. That
> poses no problem. It's only if they modify the GPL software that they
> have to provide the source code of the modifications.
>
> Samuel
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