Thomas Bushnell wrote: > Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I notice Vim in testing links against libgpm, which is GPL (according > > to /usr/doc/libgpmg1/copyright). Is this a problem, Vim's license being > > GPL-incompatible? (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html) I'm > > not entirely clear on what can link to GPL libraries and when. > > Certainly the current Vim license is GPL-incompatible. (Even if we > decided it's free after all, it's definitely not ok to link it against > a GPLd library.)
I don't see how you can call a GPL'ed library "free" if it's not allowed to compile it together with other software. -- FATHER: Who are you? PRINCE: I'm ... your son ... FATHER: Not you. LAUNCELOT: I'm ... er ... Sir Launcelot, sir. "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" PYTHON (MONTY) PICTURES LTD /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.moolenaar.net \\\ ((( Creator of Vim -- http://vim.sf.net -- ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim ))) \\\ Help me helping AIDS orphans in Uganda - http://iccf-holland.org ///