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Re: [Matt Asay Tells The Truth] Stallman: GPL doesn't guarantee softwa
From: |
Alexander Terekhov |
Subject: |
Re: [Matt Asay Tells The Truth] Stallman: GPL doesn't guarantee software freedom |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:17:10 +0200 |
David Kastrup wrote:
>
> Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
>
> > David Kastrup wrote:
> > [...]
> >> > THE LACK OF A MORE FLEXIBLE LICENSE FOR MYSQL WILL PRESENT CONSIDERABLE
> >> > BARRIERS TO A NEW FORKED DEVELOPMENT PATH FOR MYSQL.
> >>
> >> Uh, you conveniently forgot to mention that this is about MySQL being
> >> licensed GPLv2 _only_ (not as common, GPLv2 or later). Since GPLv2 is
> >
> > Does the BSD/MIT/Apache... suffer from that "problem"?
>
> Most certainly. You can't just move code from BSD with advertising
> clause into BSD without it.
Can one "combine" code, you idiot? Are you saying that one can't
"combine" Old BSD with New BSD licensed code?
Contrast it with
http://www.keionline.org/ec-mysql
"There are fundamental and unavoidable legal obstacles to combining code
from programs licensed under the different GPL versions. "
Yeah...
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AllCompatibility
"How are the various GNU licenses compatible with each other?"
Compatibility matrix.
Uh morons.
regards,
alexander.
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be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards
too, whereas GNU cannot.)
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