Gordon Messmer wrote:
I strongly recommend that you read:
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-collaboration.html
Not necessarily, because it can't be included unless the GPL applies.
Any code under a compatible license can be combined with GPL code. The
GPL applies to the "work as a whole", but does not remove the license
from the other parts which are under compatible licenses. They can be
removed from the GPLed work and reused under their original license, as
protected by copyright law, and as outlined by the link above.
That may be what the link says. It's not what the license actually
says. And probably not what many copyright holders understand it to say.
The GPL doesn't actually change the terms of
the permissively licensed code.
It says it does within the distribution as a whole. If the terms don't
apply would it mention the work-as-a-whole at all?
And of course this doesn't help with the prohibition against licenses
that are actually free like the MPL and CDDL at all.
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Les Mikesell
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