[sldev] Vivox and Kakadu licensing issues.

Jason Giglio gigstaggart at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 17:50:55 PDT 2009


Boy Lane wrote:
> Hi Gigs/Jason :)
> 
> This doesn't really make sense as both are dynamically linked and not 
> required to run the client.

Dynamically linking a closed source library isn't a pass for violating
the GPL.

Regarding that copyright notice you posted, Vivox itself uses a bunch of
open source software... The Vivox client is in large part just BSD
licensed code that has been closed.

-Jason


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