Re: Obnoxious ad-clause strikes again.

2002-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:03:50PM +0200, Sunnanvind Fenderson wrote: I know some people who're thinking of moving their proprietary products to GPL instead, but they want to be able to link to some jakarta jar-files. (obnoxiously ad-clause-licensed, iirc) I suggested using the GPL with an

Re: Obnoxious ad-clause strikes again.

2002-07-29 Thread Sunnanvind Fenderson
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:03:50PM +0200, Sunnanvind Fenderson wrote: I know some people who're thinking of moving their proprietary products to GPL instead, but they want to be able to link to some jakarta jar-files. (obnoxiously

Re: Obnoxious ad-clause strikes again.

2002-07-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 11:27:34PM +0200, Sunnanvind Fenderson wrote: Only the copyright holders of libreadline can grant a license exception to link their code against GPL-incompatible code. This likewise applies to any other GPL code that they do not hold copyright for. But program X,

Re: Obnoxious ad-clause strikes again.

2002-07-29 Thread Sunnanvind Fenderson
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (when he's not postmodernly making delirium-frogsies): But program X, licensed under GPL-with-exception can link to both jakarta and to GPL-ed stuff. Can it link to both at the same time? No? It cannot link to both at the same time, as this would