On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:40:42PM +0200, Egon Willighagen wrote: > > What i understood from the replies it (among which this one, others may have > > been private), > > that it is OK to license the software GPL as long as the used APL libraries > > are part of the > > distribution on which it is installed, right?
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:16:51AM -0500, David Starner wrote: > Debian has so far ignored that clause, since many of us feel that it > leads to too many questions to be worth it, and that it's fundamentatly > a copout for a Free OS to use it. And because arranging the distribution to satisfy the "don't distribute gpled code with the incompatible executable" sub-clause requires, in essence, that we set up two independent distribution channels. [So we can guarantee we're not distributing the gpled code with the incompatibly licensed executable form of the other code.] -- Raul
