Re: Licensing Statistics (2001-09-08)

[Ben Bucksch]

Ian Hickson wrote:

>The term (as used by the FSF) is extremely well defined. The GPL is a
>license that ensures two things:
>
>   a. Code covered by the GPL will be free.
>   b. Code covered by the GPL won't be used with code that is not free.
>
Not exactly. Code covered under the GPL can't be used with code that is 
not the *GPL* (or a subset of it). Otherwise, the list of licenses 
compatible with teh GPL would be identical to the list of Free Software 
licenses. It isn't, and the MPL unfortunately happens to fall in the 
category "Free Software, but incompatible with the GPL". That's exactly 
what causes all this headache. That's why I think that the GPL is not at 
all "extremely well defined".