At 4:31 PM -0500 on 2/24/00, Mark Rauterkus wrote:
>But what does this mean in the 'real world?' By this I mean that the GPL is
>sorta sacred and NOT to be altered. We are making a change to it, right? Is
>this type of thing done eleswhere?
We're not changing the GPL -- we're just making an exception to it.
Simular is done for bison, yacc, etc. And we have rms himself helping
us do it.
>Will the code base be able to freely cross over with other GPLed code? I
>think so, but must ask as I'm mostly ignorant about these type of detailed
>license issues and implications.
I'd think they could use our code under the GPL, but the other way
around might be tricky.
>
>Is the license to a point, and that exception mostly, where we can go out
>and talk about it in other places beyond this list? These discussions are
>just for discussion reasons. I see no harm in doing so. Perhaps if someone
>has massive objections, then we should have them be mentioned NOW.
I have no objections. It does not seem like anyone does.
