> The bigger issue is then are we permitted to mix GPL and _MOST > ANYTHING ELSE_ at all? Based on the email from RMS in December, no > we aren't.
correct; the gpl doesn't allow itself to be mixed with any licenses of 'lesser blood'. i guess that would make rms feel dirty or something. ;) > If people want to know why I consider the "GPL virus" a bad thing, > there is the answer. If everything that links with the GPL _MUST > BE_ 100% GPL, then there are serious licensing problems with every > single Linux distibution if no other reason than because people have > in-discriminantly used BSDish code (sans advertising clause) within > GPL code. i think i've mentioned this before. it's really a problem. now even knightbrd sees it. ;) --phouchg "Reasoning is partly insane" --Rush, "Anagram (for Mongo)" PGP 5.0 key (0xE024447449) at http://cif.rochester.edu/~phouchg/pgpkey.txt
