On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 04:02:20PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > No doubt some people approve of this, but I think there are a lot of > people who would prefer to apply a milder form of copyleft to their > programs. How should they do this?
I thought we had proposed a reasonably decent paragraph to the KDE people? Can't that be dusted off and used in different contexts? > Perhaps someone can advise me whether the following paragraph, > inserted after the paragraph that says "This program is free software; > you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU > General Public License ..." would have the right effect, or maybe > someone can suggest a neater formulation. > > In addition to the permissions in the GNU General Public Licence, if > this software forms part of a program or library ("this work") then you > may compile and link this work with other programs or libraries ("the > other works") and distribute the resulting program or library in object > code or executable form under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General > Public Licence with the additional special exception to Section 3 of > that licence that the source code distributed need not include the > source code for the other works, provided that this work can reasonably > be considered an independent and separate work from the other works and > that the other works can reasonably be considered independent and > separate works from this work. I'm not sure what advantage this (this clause plus the GPL) is supposed to have over just using the LGPL? -- Raul