[Tox Support] About licenses of using toxcore for a free public applicaton

[JD]

You can easily assume (and correctly) that GPL is not about Freedom AT ALL.
Tox can prove an effective privacy protecting tool, and the GPL financed
crowd want to take over TOX and thus make it yet another vehicle for the
big financiers to rob users of tox of their privacy.

On 11/16/2017 10:18 AM, Nocs ... wrote:
>
> Thanks adam but why all programmers that want with their open source 
> code to help also the programmers society and use their codes tend to 
> be so blind and use GPL instead of their own license simple or open 
> public or other way that doesn`t harm other programmers.
>
>
> here is a respect programmer as to my words 
> https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/blob/master/LICENSE 
> <https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/blob/master/LICENSE>
>
> also check at this sqlite3 https://sqlite.org/copyright.html 
> <https://sqlite.org/copyright.html> respect about using their code
>
>
> Why an open source tox unique chat core want to make all others use 
> their codes as open source if they use their lib inside their app just 
> for simple functions?
>
> Why do they help in that way the big sharks who got the money by using 
> the GPL ready licenses and not the free common programmers society by 
> using open license about their codes ?
>
>
>
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> *From:* ☣Adam <adam at dc949.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 16, 2017 6:07:41 PM
> *To:* Nocs ...
> *Cc:* nurupo; support at lists.tox.chat
> *Subject:* Re: [Tox Support] About licenses of using toxcore for a 
> free public applicaton
> It'd have to be a separate application with some interprocess 
> communication (IPC) mechanism. For example, on POSIX systems, there is 
> sendmsg().
>
> Always make sure to understand the terms of the license *before* using 
> someone else's code. It's a lot easier to deal with up front than at 
> the end.
>
>
>
> On Nov 16, 2017 09:54, "Nocs ..." <nocos30 at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:nocos30 at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks for the response nurupo :/
>
>     its a bit of disaponting the GPLv3 issue.
>
>     Which of tox devs knows best what i can do about the license cause
>     i need to use it somehow in my application but for free public use
>     and i
>
>     really don`t want to make it open source but its free.
>
>     Is there anyone in tox devs that knows if i can do something else
>     since i only use the core unafected ?
>
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>     *From:* nurupo <nurupo at tox.chat>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, November 16, 2017 1:51:43 PM
>     *To:* Nocs ...
>     *Cc:* support at lists.tox.chat
>     *Subject:* Re: [Tox Support] About licenses of using toxcore for a
>     free public applicaton
>     Hello,
>
>     toxcore is licensed under GPLv3, as seen in
>     https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/blob/master/COPYING
>     <https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/blob/master/COPYING>, so to use
>     toxcore in your application you have to comply with the terms of the
>     GPLv3 license.
>
>     > The application is a free in all its services but not an open source
>     > code application.
>
>     Afaik, GPL license requires you to release your application under GPL
>     license and provide the full source code of your application to your
>     users. There should be no difference if you link it statically or
>     dynamically. You are probably thinking of LGPL, which has a linking
>     clause.
>
>     I might be mistaking though, I have only basic understanding of
>     licenses
>     and by no means am I an expert in them. There are professionals in
>     the
>     legal field which deal with licensing, they should be able to help
>     you
>     with understanding licenses.
>
>     ---
>     Regards,
>     nurupo
>
>     On 2017-11-15 17:50, Nocs ... wrote:
>     > Hello toxers,
>     >
>     > its been a long time and since i am on the latest test of some
>     > application of mine that uses tox-core shared library i wanted
>     to ask
>     > you
>     >
>     > about the license of toxcore.
>     >
>     > Do i need to place anything on my application as text, inside or
>     > outisde as a file if i make my application public ?
>     >
>     > The application is a free in all its services but not an open source
>     > code application.
>     >
>     > I haven`t modified any code inside tox i only use the tox-core as is
>     > from the shared library and i use the code and functions i need from
>     > inside it.
>     >
>     > What kind of license thing does tox need to be inside my app and how
>     > can i use it if anything is needed ?
>     >
>     > Thanks in advance
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