Tim Smith wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > My answer is below it. As far as the GPL is concerned, everything is > > compatible with it. It might not be so under jursidiction of the GNU > > Republic (where only Mr President Stallman knows and rules what is > > "compatible"), but who cares? > > This makes no sense. If I have some GPL'ed code and some code under license > Foo, and I can combine them in a program in such a way that I can satisfy > they terms of both GPL and Foo, then it makes sense to say they are > compatible. If I cannot do so, then it makes sense to say they are > incompatible.
First sale aside for a moment, GPL is a bare copyright license. When you merely "combine" works, you create compilations, not derivative works. The former is also known as "mere aggregation." Got it now? regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
