Geir Magnusson Jr. <geir <at> pobox.com> writes: > Classically, licensors seem to just make a statement about it.
Yup, authors should know best what terms apply to their works. Practically speaking, if they went with the GPL, Sun could just say "it's not 'viral' for all the practical purposes" and that would be the quick end of any scary problem, I guess. > For > example, see the Hibernate clarification to the LGPL, or how MySQL just > basically told the FSF that the GPL *is* compatible with the Apache License. Judging from the FOSS exception license text[1], what MySQL did was to simply add an exception to the GPL, that permits software under a set of open source licenses to create derivative works. I believe that's what you meant, right? cheers, dalibor topic [1] http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/licensing/foss-exception.html ... it has the familiar "As a special exception to the terms and conditions of version 2.0 of the GPL" ring.
