Moritz Lennert wrote: > > The GPL allows you to charge for derivative works (although being > > unable to prohibit free redistribution tends to limit this). > > > > Anyone distributing GRASS binaries is required to provide (or offer to > > provide) the source code for "the work as a whole" (which would > > include meschach) under the terms of the GPL. > > > > This would then allow the recipient to extract any part (e.g. > > meschach) and (try to) sell it. While that seems like a rather > > unlikely scenario, the GPL requires that you permit this, and if you > > cannot permit it, you cannot satisfy the GPL. > > > > And the meschach library appears not to permit it. > > That's what I thought... > > Interesting that Debian thought it DFSG-compatible...
I don't really see a problem with it. It's a "you do not have the freedom to make this program less free" restriction, similar to the restrictions imposed by the GPL. Essentially, it's a question of how to resolve competing freedoms, and the meschach licence took a different view to the GPL. It's just a different (and incompatible) sort of "free". -- Glynn Clements <gl...@gclements.plus.com> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
