On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 09:34:55PM +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote: > DB> GPL *does* restrict your rights. If you found a kewl foobar > DB> program but wanted to put the xforms front end to it, you can't. > DB> Well, you can, but then you can't distribute it to anyone, > DB> anywhere. Your right to use the xforms library is restricted. > > Yes, and if I was an author of the foobar program, it would be according > to my wishes. If I permitted linking with non-free libraries, someone [snip]
> I think GPL is a very good license. I just get tired of hearing people say GPL is the free-est license and doesn't restrict anybody's rights and it's the least restrictive license etc etc. [Disclaimer: Those are comments I heard, not necessarily during this dicussion or even on -legal] -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * =========================================================================
