5.1. I have a GPL program, can I use the libcurl library?
- No. GPL'd software requires all parts of the final executable to be
- licensed under GPL.
+ No, you can't distribute your program as a binary and you cannot
+ distribute the (lib)curl code your code. GPL'd software requires all parts
+ of the final executable to be licensed under GPL.
+
+ However, nothing prevents you from distributing your program separately
+ from curl and libcurl and require the user to get it separately.
5.2. I have a closed-source program, can I use the libcurl library?
make them look the best possible for their particular browsers. They usually
also do different kinds of javascript, vbscript etc.
- At times, you will see that getting a page will curl will not return the very
- same page that you see when getting the page with your browser. Then you know
- it is time to set the User Agent field to fool the server into thinking
- you're one of those browsers.
+ At times, you will see that getting a page with curl will not return the same
+ page that you see when getting the page with your browser. Then you know it
+ is time to set the User Agent field to fool the server into thinking you're
+ one of those browsers.
To make curl look like Internet Explorer on a Windows 2000 box: