From: Manuel Collado <m.collado@invalid.domain>
Subject: Re: GPL license version of GNAT GPL
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:19:52 +0100
Date: 2009-10-29T23:19:52+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hcd4l1$o4q$1@heraldo.rediris.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8ef34b37-58bc-43be-8a79-18a72b11ff8f@j24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>
Maciej Sobczak escribió:
> ... If you have two
> libraries (like GNAT runtime and my library) with different licenses,
> then obviously the whole program cannot have the same license as each
> of its dependants at the same time.
> Again, please refer to the FSF webpage.
> Interestingly, they don't consider it to be a problem...
Probably because in fact there is no problem. License terms differs, but
the Copyright notice says:
"GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later
version...."
And similarly for previous GNAT versions under *GPLv2-or-later*.
So if you have a mixture of GPLv2 and GPLv3 libraries with such
copyright notices you can legally distribute the bundle under GPLv3 (or
later)
Just my 2c.
--
Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-29 22:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-29 16:22 GPL license version of GNAT GPL Maciej Sobczak
2009-10-29 17:22 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-10-29 22:04 ` Maciej Sobczak
2009-10-29 22:19 ` Manuel Collado [this message]
2009-10-29 19:52 ` Tero Koskinen
2009-10-30 10:34 ` Stephen Leake
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