"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It is about compatibility with other free licenses. Say the > > Modified BSD license. > > Except that pieces of GPLed programs _can't_ be used in programs > licensed under a different license. > > Sure they can. You can use pieces of a GPLed program in a program > that is licensed under the modified BSD license. Ofcourse, the > resulting work has to be under the terms of the GPL, but the work is > still under several different licenses.
Beautiful. Reread that last sentence you wrote. Do you really expect any reader to figure out something that is not self-contradictory from that? If yes, what? If no, what is the point? Anyway, you are aware that a software license does not govern a work, but a transaction transferring a particular copy? That is the reason that the same software can be licensed under different licenses, and that passing on a copy is (when using the default provisions of copyright law) only permissable when one does not retain a copy for one's own use. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
