[erlang-questions] A PropEr announcement

[Vlad Dumitrescu]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 08:43, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:

> Of course, tests aren't covered with the same license.
>
> GCC is licensed under GPL. You are writing C code, which has ifdefs
> for GCC and for MSVC. How can you imagine, that someone will order you
> to release your program under GPL?
>

I don't know. But I've seen stranger things in my life :-)


> PropEr is just a tool. If you distribute this tool, you must share
> sources. You may sell it, but with opened sources. But you don't have
> any restrictions about files, that this tool works with.
>

Apparently, that the tests are linked with the PropEr runtime code is enough
to contaminate them with GPL.

regards,
Vlad
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