Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 01:51:14PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > > > > > > If somebody could give me a legal advice that the Python license is in > > > fact > > > compatible with the GPL, and if this was accepted by the guys at > > > debian-legal@lists.debian.org, I would happily adopt this opinion and that > > > would make (b) go away as well. > > > > > > Until this happens, I think the best way for Debian to handle this > > > situation > > > (clearly not perfect!) is to use a per-case judgement--if there's GPL code > > > in a package, ask the author if it's okay to use it with Python2 code. If > > > he > > > says alright, go on with packaging. > > > > Say, what kind of clause is needed in licenses to make them explicitly > > GPL-compatible without harming the license conditions in all other > > cases where the GPL is not involved ? > > Hmm, during the great KDE confusion (KDE was GPL, and Qt was not compatible > with the GPL), it was suggested that the authors of the KDE code should add > this clause to their license boiler plate (cf. > http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19981008): > > `This program is distributed under the GNU GPL v2, with the > additional permission that it may be linked against Troll Tech's Qt > library, and distributed, without the GPL applying to Qt''
Uhm, that's backwards from what I had in mind with the question. Sorry for not being more to the point. Here's the "problem" I have: I want to put my code under a license similar to the Python 2 license (that is including the choice of law clause which caused all this trouble). Since some of my code is already being used by GPL-software out there,I would like to add some kind of extra-clause to the license which permits the GPL-code authors to the new versions as well. This is somewhat similar to the problem that Python2 has with the GPL; don't know how CNRI is going to change the license for 1.6.1, but I want to include something similar in my license. Anyway, since Debian is very sensitive to these issues, I thought I'd ask you for a possible way out. Thanks, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg ______________________________________________________________________ Company: http://www.egenix.com/ Consulting: http://www.lemburg.com/ Python Pages: http://www.lemburg.com/python/
