Re: Ada and Database

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <0dDf6NA7DYK4@eisner.decus.org>,
  Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote:
> In article <937kvb$tc3$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar
<robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
>
> > If you don't clearly understand the GPL, how can you
possibly
> > make the judgment that your license (which I have not read)
> > is compatible with the GPL?
>
> To quote Bill Hancock:
>
> 	If a vendor says "compatible" they mean "different".
> 	If they meant "same" they would say "same".

Well that's amusing, but really a bit obfuscatory in this
context. The legal concept of a license being compatible
with the GPL is an important one. The GPL allows you limited
rights to distribute. You can only mix GPL'ed code with other
code that is under a compatible license, where compatibility
is defined as a license that does not "impose any further
restrictions". Yes the GPL is compatible with itself in
this sense, but it is also compatible with any less restrictive
license.


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