Re: GUI goodness for your Mouse and Keyboard programming

Derek!

Derek Broughton wrote:
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.

No. I can write a piece of code that is specifically and only designed
to run with Linux, on Linux, for Linux... and that code doesn't have to
be GPL. Despite the fact that the Linux kernel is GPL.

Gilles.

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