From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 472667558 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <1rlV2.97$jw4.11389@burlma1-snr2> <7g5cb2$bjn$1@netnews.upenn.edu> <7g7o6d$lrj$1@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: sunu789.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de 925475970 5182 134.147.176.143 (30 Apr 1999 12:39:30 GMT) Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Apr 1999 12:39:30 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-30T12:39:30+00:00 List-Id: writes: > Lynn Winebarger wrote: > > In article , > > Barry Margolin wrote: > >> > >>You can use other licenses than the GPL, but they have to be compatible -- > >>they can't impose additional restrictions, but they can give additional > >>freedoms. > >> > > Just curious - what more freedoms could they give? > > for example the xfree licence allows you to link with proprietary software, > but this licence is still GPL compatable. When distributed as part of a GPLed work, they cannot grant linking to proprietary software. So they cannot give additional freedoms to a GPLed work linked with them. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570 Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fax: +49-234-709-4209 Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany