Hi Federico,
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 22:55:32 +0000
Federico Zenith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I was reading the licence provisions for OpenModelica.
They were quite clear
that "the OSMC Public License, also its OSMC-GPL mode,
is different from
and incompatible with GPL. Therefore it is not possible
to include any
GPL-licensed contribution into OpenModelica".
However, there are a few conflicts: Qt is GPL-{2,3}, and
also mico is (L)GPL.
even if I think there are no real compatibility problems,
since:
- Qt is double licensed ("...Qt is available under both
commercial and open source licenses.."):
http://trolltech.com/products/qt/learnmore/licensing-pricing
- and mico is not incorporated ("..If the two programs
remain well separated, like the compiler
and the kernel, or like an editor and a shell, then you
can treat them as two separate programs..."):
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLInProprietarySystem.
I totally agree with you that by adopting the GPL license
will bring great benefits for the
OpenModelica compiler, since it could be possible to
integrate other GPL licensed software.
Filippo.
I am not a lawyer, but this looks like a potential
problem.
Adrian, has there already been a discussion about this?
Have you considered
just using the standard GPL-v3? Were there any
particular reasons to add that
additional provision?
Cheers,
-Federico
------------------------------------------
Filippo Donida
Politecnico di Milano
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32
20133 Milano - Italia
Phone +39 02 2399 3669 (Milano)
Phone +39 02 2399 7760 (Cremona)
Fax +39 02 2399 3412 (Milano)
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
