Hi Frederico (please excuse the out-of-order quoting), On 18 Sep 2007, at 18:56, Frederico Muñoz wrote:
> Offtopic, but important to understand why some people think the BSDL > is incompatible with the GPL: > >> The complete work becomes GPL'd and the BSDL components remain BSDL >> individually > > That can't be the case, since the GPL requires the whole derived work > to be GPL'ed: We're straying off topic here (and the following should have the standard I am not a lawyer, I have not worked in IP law for a few years, and this is not legal advice disclaimer), but the GPL does not actually require the entire work to be licensed under the GPL. This is a common simplification, but it's not what the legalese states. What it does require is that the total work be licensed in such a way that includes the same conditions as the GPL. This is a crucial distinction, and the one that allows aggregate works to be effectively licensed under the GPL; legally speaking, they aren't, but practically they are. To be honest, this kind of legal trickery is one of the reasons I try to avoid the GPL; I like licenses I can understand without having to think like a lawyer... > IANAL and all that, and this is a very grey area. Indeed it is. > I'm also feeling midly embarassed in the way I'm apparently raising a > lot of obstacles when the main contributors have already reached a > consensus. Do view my mails as a simple statement of my views and not > as a way to block anything, I have no such presumption *at all*. I agree with Jesse. It's good to have these issues raised, and I've been impressed with the quality of the discussion here. It's a topic that a lot of people have very strong view on, and this thread has managed to avoid degenerating into the kind of license flamewar that seems to be so fashionable on open source mailing lists these days. Thank you to all concerned for keeping this discussion so civil. Now, straying into slightly less safe territory, does anyone have any views on LGPL 2.1 Vs LGPL 3? GNUstep recently switched to LGPL 3, I believe. I haven't read LGPL 3 in detail, so I don't have any views on this yet... David _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
