Re: [platform-swt-dev] Common Public License and SWT

[Jim White <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Whiteman wrote:
> Thursday, February 27, 2003, 3:13:29 PM, Erik Poupaert wrote:
>
> > Does anybody understand the difference between the CPL and the GPL? I fail
> > to read any difference in practical terms?
>
> I'm not a lawyer, but IIRC, the GPL does not permit you to distribute
> commercial applications on top of GPL-licensed libraries.

"Commerical" doesn't mean anything in this context as presumably the 
salient issue there is whether you get paid for the software and neither 
GPL nor CPL say antyhing at all about money.

The key requirement of both CPL and GPL is that any distribution of the 
binaries must include or provide access to the source for no additional 
charge and the right to redistribute same.

Jim