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Originally Posted by Devlar
So everyone will eventually have access to the source and documentation, one way or the other.
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Not necessarily. If they wrote, say, pageBar from scratch (that's the program that displays the page numbers), they don't have to publish the source. Only where they use and modify a GPL'ed program such requirements apply.
And no, linking gtk libs is no derivative work. It really is possible to develop closed-source commercial programs in an open source environment.
Let's just hope they give us a lot of stuff.
The next thing is that non-developers (in the sense of an irex registration) can only get new software through iDS. Apparently they plan to let people add viewers to iDS, but we know nothing definite. Especially whether we have to hand over the copyright to irex or something.
Oh - and we still don't know about a reinstall possibility (note to self: go to the irex forum for that).