Indeed. The GPL is pathological. Sun developed a fantastic file system
called ZFS and released under a Sun open source license that requires, like
the Firebird licenses, that modifications be available under the same
license. But Linux integration would require some mods, the mods would
have to be GPL, and GPL doesn't allow any GPL code to be released under a
different license. Therefore, no ZFS in Linux.
On Friday, March 13, 2015, Michal Kubecek <m...@mk-sys.cz> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:09:04PM -0400, Jim Starkey wrote:
> > I can't see any reason to muck around with licenses at all. MPL 2.0
> claim to
> > fame is that it's compatible with GPL, but at the moment approximately
> 100% of
> > Firebird is already incompatible with GPL -- and very little of it can be
> > changed -- what is the point?
>
> Please be careful about the word "compatible" when talking about GPL.
> Unfortunately it's one of the words (together with "free") that FSF
> is abusing by completely twisting their usual meaning. In FSF-speak,
> "GPL-compatible" means, roughly speaking, "code we can copy into a GPL
> licensed project". I guess I don't have to explain such relation is far
> from symmetric.
>
> Michal Kubecek
>
>
>
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