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From: David Reed <dreed@capital.edu>
Subject: Re: GladeGen license
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:02:31 -0400
To: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl>
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On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:

> David Reed wrote:
>> On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:44 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> Short intro: I'm a Computer science teacher at a Dutch university, 
>>> and a FOSS enthousisast / developer. I've given 2 of my students an 
>>> assignment to create a little tool which can be used to automate 
>>> downloading of certain not 100% FOSS files which thus cannot be 
>>> distributed with some Linux distros, but which are freely (and 
>>> legally) available for download.
>>>
>>> I want to release this tool as opensource (GPL license), but I 
>>> noticed that they have used your GladeGen code as part of the tool. 
>>> This brings me to the following question: under which license may 
>>> the GladeGen code be distributed?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Hans
>>>
>> Hi Hans,
>> Yes, the GladeGen source is under the GPL. If they just used GladeGen 
>> to create their program it's not an issue. If they are including some 
>> of the source from GladeGen then it would be, but if it's GPL, that's 
>> fine.
>> Dave
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Thanks for the info, but doesn't the generated code always include 
> some of the GladeGen code, as the generated source import's 
> GladeWindow ?


You're correct - I haven't looked at the code in a while and forgot 
about that.

> Notice that this is not a problem for me as the tool as a whole will 
> be released under GPL.
>

I really should put some information about it on my webpage. I'm always 
surprised at how many people (still) email me about it. I offered the 
it to the glade developers to see if they wanted to include it w/ 
glade, but I never heard back.

Dave