Craig Southeren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 12:42:49 +0300
> Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 07:29:37PM +1000, Craig Southeren wrote:
>> > On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:18:34 -0700
>> > Josh Triplett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>> > > I think you have successfully argued that we can satisfy this
>> > > requirement of the license, and thus we could probably legally
>> > > distribute MPLed software; however, distributability only gets you as
>> > > far as the non-free archive.
>> > 
>> > Given that the Debian definition of free basically means "GPL compatible",
>> > I never really expected anything else :)
>> 
>> GPL-compatible as in openssh and openssl?
>
> The modified BSD license is GPL compatible, isn't it? (I know the
> original BSD license isn't)

That doesn't matter.  GPL-compatibility or copyleft ist *not* a
requirement of the DFSG, not at all.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)

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