> From: "Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#503949: Current
> interpretation URL Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:50:49 +0100
> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://www.db4o.com/about/company/legalpolicies/gplinterpretation.aspx
> >
> > Sorry I looked it up only now.  
> 
> As I understood when I uploaded the package, the db4o interpretation
> of GPL doesn't go further than GPL itself.

> Anyway, they cannot paste
> GPL to their code and then interpret it in a different way than GPL
> itself literature.

I agree, their interpretation of the GPL has no legal binding to the
meaning of the GPL (in law).

IMHO we should remove the hint from the copyright file though or at
least add a disclaimer to clarify the existing but meaningless
interpretation of db4o.

> If they do so, they're not licensing the code under
> GPL but other different thing.
> 
> Cheers,


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