Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Joerg Schilling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [06.07.08 12:44]:
> > Sebastian Günther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > And the issue is not the licenses itself, but the mixing of the
> > > licenses in one project.
> >
> > Your problem is not to understand the difference between "project"
> > and "distribution".
> >
> Sorry, wrong term. You're right, the problem is about distributions.
>
> "This is a free software license. It has a copyleft with a scope that's
> similar to the one in the Mozilla Public License, which makes it
> incompatible with the GNU GPL. This means a module covered by the GPL
> and a module covered by the CDDL cannot legally be linked together. We
> urge you not to use the CDDL for this reason."
>
> http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/index_html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
>
> And this is the problem, that e.g. Debian has.
Please finally stop this FUD!
FUD stays FUD even if it is spread by the FSF.......
If the GPL did forbid to link non-GPL cpde together wit GPL code, then the GPL
was dead from it's beginning.
Note that the whole GPL does not use the word "linking" anywhere in the GPL
text.
The GPL is asymmetric and _only_ discallows you to create derived work from GPLd
code that is not under GPL.
The GPL does _not_ forbid to have GPLd code that is a derived work from NON-GPLd
code.
Jörg
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