On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:42:33PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Ivica Ico Bukvic hat gesagt: // Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote: > > > > That's not the problem. The problem is, that the current Percolate > > > license is not a free software license. Non-free licenses are > > > incompatible with the GPL, which flext uses. By distributing a version > > > of Percolate externals using their current license built with > > > GPL-flext you would be violating the GPL! So you are not allowed to > > > distribute your flext-Percolate ATM. > > > > Please pardon my ignorance, but will this be the case even if I distribute > > the ported code as source-only (assuming that I get a permission to do so > > from the original authors)? > > I'm not a lawyer, but as I understand it, source or binary doesn't > matter: As long as you distribute a flext-external, source or binary, > you have to distribute it as GPL. This is impossible without violating > either the Percolate license or the GPL, because both are > incompatible: the Percolate license isn't a free license.
It would be good to find out what the legal status of code that is illegally licensed. We've had this issue before with the not-for-military-use clause that Yves added to his software, rendering it technically illegal. A lawyer could tell us if it's a) in legal limbo land where nobody is legally allowed to use it b) defaults to public domain c) something else weird. Chris. ------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
