Re: FSF libgnat

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> In particular, (iii) imposes heavy constraints on the license you can
> choose for your own software. For example, you may not authorize
> decompilation of your software, even if you indicate the addresses
> corresponding to your code (to prevent Microsoft code from being
> decompiled), because your whole executable must have terms as least as
> protective as the Microsoft components you use.

I see. That's quite similar to how a GPL library dictates the license of 
binaries with that library linked in. I don't see that different 
licenses will apply to different parts of the same file, as Ludovic 
seemed to say happens with the GMGPL. As you write yourself: "your whole 
executable".

In fact, if they *had* allowed you to permit decompilation of your own 
parts of the executable but not of Microsoft's parts, *then* there would 
have been different licenses on different parts of the file. Instead, 
they let you put your own license on the whole file, but require that 
your license contain all of their restrictions.

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