On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 03:54:40PM +0200, Maurizio De Cecco wrote: > Erik Troan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > - Clause 9. License Must Not Contaminate Other Software. > > > > > > While using the GPL for libraries is conformant with this OSD > > > requirement, we do not want the runtime linking of any GPL > > > libraries to be required for conformance with our standards. > > The standard define the API, while the licence cover the implementation, > right ? > > Should this then translate that the standard should include only library APIs > for which > at least one Open Source that is not GPL implementation exists ? > > Who is going to explain this to Mr. Stallman ?
I do not think we can exclude GPL as an open source license. And we should not exclude GPL-ed sources as reference implementations. If we do, we do not have a kernel, as the Linux kernel is GPL. Keld
