Hi, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > That should be probably explained by some expert on GPL in Wikipedia > discussion here: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:License_compatibility
Ouch. In general, Wikipedia authors are not allowed to be experts but should rather be researchers for the writings of experts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research (I guess it would help the factual quality of many articles if experts could acquire an official witness status ...) The professional experts for GPL are the lawyers and judges of the country where a particular copyright or licence problem gets brought to court. As said in a previous mail, it matters much what the issuer of the license states as intended interpretation of the GPL. So why not ask the license issuers of your target project whether they would mind software with your preferred license to be linked in ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the context of Debian it is amusing that one of the main combattants on that wikipedia talk page is "Schily" = Joerg Schilling, the author of cdrecord and mkisofs. His view on licensing earned his software an ejection from Debian in 2006, which caused the forking of wodim and genisoimage. Have a nice day :) Thomas
