David wrote: [re: GPL virus] > Yes. Unless the author of the original progam accepts that the new version > no longer complies with the original GPL agreements and revokes his own GPL > licence. (Is that right?)
Ummm... actually, no; a GPL'd program can call whatever it likes, without the libs it uses having to be GPL'd too. It's a purist thing to have them all as GPL'd libraries, and not explicitly necessary. Also, as both Allan and Ian would have to remove their GPL, I don't think it would ever happen. Personally, I'd want to release it under something like the original BSD license (for personal and philosophical reasons - basically the GPL seems like a sophistic trick to enforce peoples' "altruism" [at which point, of course, it's no longer altruism] and is downright evil, but it's too late now :) Si
