Joerg Schilling <joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:

> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Isn't it strange that those people seem to have less problems with closed 
> > > source than with a license that gives more freedom than the GPL? But 
> > > you are correct that the problem seem to be humans and not a license text.
> >
> > You are aware that the GPL was not really intended to be used together
> > with other licenses? It was really intended to create an entire
> > operating system, all of which was 100% licensed as GPL, all of which
> > comprise an original work written from scratch
>
> But it has been proven that you cannot create a 100% GPL OS.
> More than 50% of all Linux distros are under different licenses...
>

Sorry, this should be: More than 50% of a typical Linux distro is 
under different licenses...

Jörg

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