cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

Posted Aug 13, 2006 21:33 UTC (Sun) by ewan (subscriber, #5533)
In reply to: cdrtools - a tale of two licenses by dmantione
Parent article: cdrtools - a tale of two licenses

Yes, you can, if the total work that your code is included in requires
such a Makefile to build. If I include your code in a project with no
Makefile, then I'm OK, if I include it in a project that relies on a
Makefile, then that Makefile must be GPLed, as must everything else that
makes up the project.

You can't force me to add anything to your code, or make any
modifications to it at all, however, if I chose to do so then you can
force me to make those additions or modifications available under the GPL
(assuming of course that I'm distributing it).

Look at it from the point of view of an end user receiving the binary -
because of the GPL licence they have the right to modify the program.
They cannot do that if they cannot build their modified source because
they don't have the Makefile.

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