Re: [License-discuss] was about Server-Side license but is about copyleft....

2018-11-08 Thread Lawrence Rosen
Cowan Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2018 2:37 PM To: Lawrence Rosen ; license-discuss@lists.opensource.org Subject: Re: [License-discuss] was about Server-Side license but is about copyleft On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 5:33 PM Lawrence Rosen mailto:lro...@rosenlaw.com> > wrote:

Re: [License-discuss] was about Server-Side license but is about copyleft....

2018-11-08 Thread John Cowan
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 5:33 PM Lawrence Rosen wrote: [] Not always, John. Add Linux or MySQL to your application with > complete freedom. Someone is making a whole bunch of random exceptions for > GPLv2 "copyleft" software. I prefer those exceptions to the interpretation > you cited. > Distingu

[License-discuss] was about Server-Side license but is about copyleft....

2018-11-08 Thread Lawrence Rosen
[moving this to license-discuss@] Kyle Mitchell wrote: > If I build a dental records management application with a GPLv2 file format > parser, wouldn't my application be "other software"? But that can't be > right. We must be making a mistake elsewhere. John Cowan responded: > My unde