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  Gnumeric scripting and license Bhushit Joshipura <joshipura@gmail.com> - 2011-06-09 07:47 -0700
    Re: Gnumeric scripting and license Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-10 07:31 +1000
    Re: Gnumeric scripting and license Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-10 08:18 +1000

#7302 — Gnumeric scripting and license

I am looking for some information about Gnumeric scripting licensing.
Here is my question:
"If I script for Gnumeric using Python, must I release the script
code?"
I am unable to draw a line where Gnumeric GPL ends and where
proprietary nature of macros start.

Thanks in advance,
-Bhushit

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Bhushit Joshipura <joshipura@gmail.com> writes:

> I am looking for some information about Gnumeric scripting licensing.

You're asking in the wrong place; that's a question for the authors of
the GPL, and for the copyright holders in Gnumeric.

The authors of the GPL have an FAQ document you will likely find
informative <URL:http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html>.

> "If I script for Gnumeric using Python, must I release the script
> code?"

As far as Python is concerned, the license of Python does not require
you to release your code.

Consult the FSF, and the Gnumeric copyright holders, and your legal
advisor, for the rest of your question.

-- 
 \     “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is |
  `\       required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long |
_o__)                                       run.” —Henry David Thoreau |
Ben Finney

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#7323

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Bhushit Joshipura <joshipura@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for some information about Gnumeric scripting licensing.
> Here is my question:
> "If I script for Gnumeric using Python, must I release the script
> code?"
> I am unable to draw a line where Gnumeric GPL ends and where
> proprietary nature of macros start.

As a general rule, the GPL doesn't care what you do with your own
modified copy of something; it's only a concern if you _distribute_ a
modified copy (in which case you have to make available the source
code, etc etc). You're fully allowed to fiddle with something and
compile it for your own use, and not release your changes. See for
instance the GPL FAQ which Ben Finney posted, specifically this
question and answer:

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic

Chris Angelico

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