GNU License warning:
Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jan 18 01:54:24 PST 2017
On Friday, 13 January 2017 at 02:25:03 UTC, Ignacious wrote:
> Licenses should be more specific in their terminology and their
> behaviors and effects rather than using arbitrary divisions.
If your plugin uses contrived API riddled with all good C(++)
misfeatures to customize like 80% of program's functionality - it
thus creates a competing proprietary product, which is what GPL
tries to prevent. AFAIK it doesn't allow you to use complex API
with out of process plugins either. With this division of API GPL
tries to control what a plugin can do to the host application,
namely it tries to keep degree of integration and complexity of
the plugin API low. If you know a better way to do it, you can
propose it to FSF, that's also why GPL addresses automatic
license upgrade.
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