<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:53 AM, Maciej Sieczka <span dir="ltr"><tutey@o2.pl></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Browsing Debian Pkg-nx-group archives I noticed a message [1] which<br>
suggests that using non-GPL software inside an NX session might be illegal:<br>
<br>
"I think it's illigal to use non-GPL applications like Acrobat Reader<br>
inside an NX-session. These non-GPL applications are using X libraries<br>
with GPL license. Even running OpenOfficeOrg would be wrong, because<br>
this is LGPL."<br>
<br>
Does this realy hold true?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Don't think so.<br><br>If you execute:<br> $ strace -e trace=file -o "|grep -i -e nx -e libX11" xterm<br> open("/usr/lib/libX11.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3<br> stat("/var/cache/libx11/compose/", 0x7fff03460f90) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)<br>
you will see that the programs that are been executed are linked against xorg's libX11.<br><br>The execution path seems to be:<br> Program -> Xorg libX11 > nxagent > NX libX11.<br>License: Whatever MIT/X11 GPL GPL<br>
<br>Shima.<br></div></div><br></div>