On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 11:00:45PM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 11:56:57AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 24, 1999 at 09:03:32PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > > What i thought was : > > > - if im not free to mix the code with other code it is not > > > fully free > > > > You are free to mix the code with other code, though. All DFSG free > > licenses allow modification, which is exactly that. The only licenses > > which allows you to freely mix the code with any other code regardless > > of license are the BSD and X and related licenses. > > No; some packages can only be modified one-way. They allow incorporation > of foreign code, but they do not allow snippets of themselves to be used > in other packages, without extreme measures (such as copying the entire > package and supplying a diff that removes everything except the snippet). > > I do not consider packages under such licenses to be free.
And this is what I was talking about all the time.
