Closed Source Licensing Based on Open Source tools?

Jonathan I Ezor · 08/12/2009, 10:44 AM

I've noted that many of the new homebrew apps here on PreCentral are listed as closed source. As I understand the GPL license used by Palm, wouldn't any application incorporating Palm's open source elements be required to be open source as well? Does that mean that the apps listing themselves as closed source (a) don't incorporate any of those open source elements or (b) do but the developers didn't get the licensing right or (c) I'm just wrong about all of this? Thanks. {ProfJonathan}

d00heden · 08/12/2009, 11:01 AM

I'm not a lawyer, but as far as I know dynamic linking is allowed with GPL which I guess you can say is the case with webos applications. (Widgets etc. are not included in the application but rather "linked" in at runtime).

DJeremyC · 08/12/2009, 11:03 AM

Add: This usually means that there will be a charge for usage of the app later on...by someone down the chain.

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Jonathan I Ezor Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Long Island, NY, USA Posts: 568 Likes Received: 16 Thanks: 285 Thanked 225 Times in 117 Posts	Closed Source Licensing Based on Open Source tools? I've noted that many of the new homebrew apps here on PreCentral are listed as closed source. As I understand the GPL license used by Palm, wouldn't any application incorporating Palm's open source elements be required to be open source as well? Does that mean that the apps listing themselves as closed source (a) don't incorporate any of those open source elements or (b) do but the developers didn't get the licensing right or (c) I'm just wrong about all of this? Thanks. {ProfJonathan} __________________ Prof. Jonathan I. Ezor Writer, PreCentral Past Palm Real Reviewer @webOSquire on Twitter
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d00heden Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Sweden Posts: 127 Likes Received: 1 Thanks: 7 Thanked 71 Times in 13 Posts	I'm not a lawyer, but as far as I know dynamic linking is allowed with GPL which I guess you can say is the case with webos applications. (Widgets etc. are not included in the application but rather "linked" in at runtime).
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DJeremyC Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: TX Posts: 762 Likes Received: 17 Thanks: 486 Thanked 157 Times in 126 Posts	Add: This usually means that there will be a charge for usage of the app later on...by someone down the chain.
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