Re: GUI goodness for your Mouse and Keyboard programming

Gilles Gravier <gilles@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

As you can see, it's VERY possible. In fact, VERY COMMON, to bundle open
source and non open source code in ways that aren't infringing on the
orignial open source license.

It is, indeed. But ... the "terms and conditions" page reads:

| [...] rights in and to the Software shall remain in YODASOFT
| TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD, except for the xosd library and the usb device
| driver, which are both installed into the 'hidpoint/lib' and
| 'hidpoint/driver' directory of the installation. These components are
| licensed under the GPL license.

Note that they mention the GPL (not the LGPL). Such a combination is
clearly illegal - you would need the libs to be LGPL'ed to allow closed
source to be linked against them.

Apart from all that, I don't wish to see ads for whatever software
someone may have written here.


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