On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:19:34 +0000 Simon Wilkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 23 Feb 2010, at 21:01, Andrew Deason wrote: > > >> [...] ruling out GPL as we have to because of the IBM Public License > >> incompatibility (even apart from any other issues). > > > > Erm, even contributions that don't touch IPL stuff? Not that I can > > imagine myself wanting to submit anything under a GPL-y license. > > Unless the GPL'd code has an additional license clause which > specifically permits linking with IPL'd code, you can't distribute an > object file which contains code from both licenses. This is a > non-starter for our binary packagers. By not 'touch'ing I meant: does not link against IPL code, is not derivative of IPL code, is not copied from IPL code, etc. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
