Tassilo Horn wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> writes: > > > Tassilo Horn wrote: > > [...] > >> Or what's the general approach to open-source projects using both GPL > >> and possibly incompatible licenses? > > > > Ignore the allegedly "GPL incompatibility" nonsense. > > So that means that we are allowed to release the whole thing unter > Eclipse Public License and having some GPL libs bundled is "somewhat > ok"?
It's perfectly okay and is called "mere aggregation" in Guh-NÜ-speak. http://www.btlj.org/data/articles/21_04_04.pdf (DANGEROUS LIAISONSSOFTWARE COMBINATIONS AS DERIVATIVE WORKS? DISTRIBUTION, INSTALLATION, AND EXECUTION OF LINKED PROGRAMS UNDER COPYRIGHT LAW, COMMERCIAL LICENSES, AND THE GPL) http://www.law.washington.edu/LCT/Events/FOSS/OmegaBrief.pdf (Omega Plaintiff's Brief) http://www.law.washington.edu/LCT/Events/FOSS/AlphaBrief.pdf (Alpha Defendant's Brief) http://www.law.washington.edu/LCT/Events/FOSS/03.%20Beyond%20the%20Basics%20-%20Moot%20Court.mp3 (Hearing and Q&A) ------- The Scope of Derivative Works as Applied to Software: David Bender of White & Case LLP and author of Computer Law and Ieuan Mahony of Holland & Knight LLP will argue the proper scope of derivative work under U.S. copyright law when applied to software, before a panel of distinguished federal appellate judges: * HONORABLE WILLIAM C. BRYSON, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit * HONORABLE HALDANE ROBERT MAYER, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit * HONORABLE MARGARET MCKEOWN, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ------- and finally http://markmail.org/message/pkwi5gzoxx3gdoas Hth. regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
