On 5/16/05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Also, AFAICS, that's not about distribution, but it's about linking > against the Cygwin DLL. If you do that with an application which has > a non-approved OSS license, you're infringing the Cygwin license if > you don't GPL the code. But if you GPL the code, you're infringing the > BSDPL license. So I don't see a satisfactory way out.
It's hard to see the BSDPL as an open-source license, since only one level of branching from the "one true authorized source" is allowed: 3.c) The license under which the derivative work is distributed must expressly prohibit the distribution of further derivative works. Thus, anyone who creates a derivative cannot give others the right to create further derivitives. The first entity to license the work is the only one with primary control, all forks are stillborn. -- Barry
