Hi Landon.<br>If understand correctly you use AutoLISP to produce interpreted helper scripts, so you don't create binary libraries to be statically (in this case GPL is an issue) or dynamically (there are various interpretations in this case) linked, am I right?<br>
AFAIK you can keep your code GPL until the programs that use it don't
link it in their binaries. If they use it like a "service" and don't
incorporate your code in their one, the two licences can be considered
decoupled.<br><br>giovanni<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/15 Landon Blake <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lblake@ksninc.com">lblake@ksninc.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I’m working on a group of AutoLISP scripts for IntelliCAD
and AutoCAD that increase cooperation between these CAD programs and FOSS GIS
software. (For example: One set of my scripts allows CAD users to export
drawing geometry in OGC WKT format.)</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">I’d like to release these scripts under Version 3 of
the GPL, but I’m not sure if this is possible. The scripts are read by
proprietary CAD programs, and I don’t have the power to release the code
for these programs under the GPL.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Must I use something like the LGPL or another non-viral
license? I’ve never written open source code utilized by a proprietary
program in this way, but I’m hoping some of you have dealt with this
issue before.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks for any suggestions.</span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Landon</span></font></p>
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