Re: GPL/LGPL confusion

2001-07-04 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:54:22AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:38:21PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: Alice wrote foo.c, licensed under the GNU X11 license. I've never seen a GNU X11 license, nor is one listed at http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/license-list.html. There's

Re: GPL/LGPL confusion

2001-07-04 Thread Raul Miller
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:14:39AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ca1968133/s196.html (s196 of the Copyright Act for Australia) It's pretty clear that this context has to do with the transfer of ownership on a copyright (which must be accompanied

Re: GPL/LGPL confusion

2001-07-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: There's what they claim is the MIT X11 license, which doesn't match the X11 license on xfree86.org's website. I choose to call that the GNU X11 license to make it clear what I'm talking about. This is the MIT X11 license: : Copyright 1989 by

Re: GPL/LGPL confusion

2001-07-04 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is based on the false idea that one must be the copyright owner on the components of a derived or compiled work in order to ensure that the the entirety of that work is available under some license terms. I don't understand, can you elaborate