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From: "chris.danx" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: windows bindings
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:35:59 +0100
Date: 2001-10-12T19:35:59+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8KGx7.6342$oE5.635791@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: shFx7.26333$ev2.34845@www.newsranger.com


> >compatibility.  I believe the X (MIT or OpenGroup) license is compatible
> >with the GPL but I wasn't sure how compatible it is with the GMGPL.  Has
>
> The GMGPL is just the GPL with some extra text preventing the "viral"
spread of
> the GPL under certian circumstances. If the GPL is compatable, the GMGPL
should
> be as well.

Ok.

> >anyone wrote a simplified (i.e. not in legal jargon) summary of the GMGPL
> >license that describes what it allows like the ppl have tried to do with
the
> >GPL?

> Sure. I can do it in two sentences. Its the GPL, plus:
>
> As a special exception,  if other files  instantiate  generics from this
> unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an executable,
> this unit does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be
> covered by the GNU General Public License.  This exception does not
> however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be
> covered by the GNU Public License.
>
> That *is* the GMGPL. :-)

Seen it millions of times before just didn't realise this was what ppl here
meant by the GMGPL.






  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-12 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-11 22:27 windows bindings chris.danx
2001-10-11 23:04 ` David Botton
2001-10-12 11:51   ` chris.danx
2001-10-12 14:24     ` David Botton
2001-10-12 17:05       ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-12 16:56     ` Ted Dennison
2001-10-12 18:35       ` chris.danx [this message]
2001-10-12 18:22     ` tmoran
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