Re: GUI goodness for your Mouse and Keyboard programming

Gilles Gravier wrote:

Third, I note, after installing the software, that past the
installation, the software than procedes to DOWNLOAD drivers. In terms
of, say, GPL license, this means that additional downloaded software
isn't considered BUNDLED software. It's not part of the original PROJECT
code. So they could have a completely proprietary application with a
nice installer... and that application could then download perfectly
GPLed drivers... and all they'd have to provide source code for
(possibly just in the form of a link on their site, again) would be the
drivers, but not their proprietary code. GPL only concerns code that is
linked into an original GPL project. By using a separate download of
code, they segment their stuff into separate projects, thus breaking the
GPL link.

That's not really true. If the software _requires_ GPL licensed code to
work, it's a "derived work" and must still be GPL. Just keeping your code
separate from GPL code isn't enough. If, otoh, it's a driver configurator
(I just skimmed it - I thought it was spam, too) it probably doesn't really
require specific drivers.
--
derek


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