GNU Cash as accounting engine

[Amiruddin Nagri]

I do understand Gnucash is under GPL, and I don't have any problems with
making the module that is interacting with the engine opensource. I am
planning to make my Gnucash interacting module such that external programs
can subscribe to post transactions to it, and get updated information about
accounts etc.

So does that mean my application which will be using this GPL interaction
layer also have to be GPLed ?

Regards,
Amiruddin Nagri,
Bangalore, 560008, KA
India

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On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 7:46 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> On Jun 12, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Amiruddin Nagri wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am working on a application that needs an accouting module, with audit
> > trails and multi user support. I was hoping to use gnu cash as accounting
> > engine and integrate with my application. Is it possible ?
> >
> > Any guidance/comment/suggestion will be really helpful.
>
> Possible, sure. Most anything is possible given sufficient time and money.
> But Gnucash isn't multi-user and doesn't have audit trails, so you'd have a
> lot of work to do.
>
> I don't know what your plans are for distributing your application, but you
> need to know that Gnucash is distributed under the GPL. Among other things,
> that means that any program that in any way uses Gnucash code (even just
> dynamically linking it) must also be released under the GPL. You'll find the
> actual terms in the file "COPYING" in the top source directory.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>