Hi, After bumping into some license incompatibilities (between GPL and OpenSSL) a few years ago, I've been using the BSD license.
A recent discussion made me consider the following scheme: GPL license version 3 or higher with the following exemption: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this GPL license, you have permission to dynamically link with a work licensed under an OSI approved license, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, but not to the dynamically linked part." Rationally: you can dynamically link with any other open source library (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/), but not with proprietary code. Linking must be dynamic or using a clear API, as to keep a clear separation of the parts with a different license. I presume it is obvious what I try to do here: make sure the work remains in open source, but remove the license incompatibilities headaches that come with GPL (don't get me started on projects that use the GPLv2 license and forgot the "or higher" part -- you can't even combine that with GPLv3). Now, I am not a lawyer, and am reluctant to "invent my own license", which is kind of what I do here. So my question is: is there an existing license which (roughly) does the above? I rather use that instead of fiddling with my own exempts. Thanks, Freek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d8e4cee.6080...@macfreek.nl
