M. David Peterson wrote: > On 8/29/07, *Sanghyeon Seo* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > Now, suppose a collective work composed of Ms-PL-licensed sources and > GPL-licensed sources. My understanding is that it is undistributable > in source code form since both licenses want it to be licensed "under > this license". I think GPL would "comply with Ms-PL", but GPL requires > distributing in binary form to be accompanied with the complete > machine-readable source code, so the source code needs to be > distributable too. > > > Isn't this true about most BSD-esque licenses?
The BSD license generally is compatible with GPL. The most common form of the BSD license is the 'revised BSD'. The original BSD license wasn't compatible. See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#OrigBSD All the best, Michael Foord http://www.ironpython.info/ > I'll admit that I have never really dug much deeper than the surface > as to why BSD-esque and GPL licenses tend to be incompatible and > therefore redistribution of a GPL'd software package inside of a > BSD-esque software package is not allowed. But off the top of my > head, the Trac <> MoinMoin incompatibility comes to mind, and there > are obviously LOTS and LOTS of other similar situations. > > Is this particular issue really all that unique, or am I missing > something obvious? > > -- > /M:D > > M. David Peterson > http://mdavid.name | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 | > http://dev.aol.com/blog/3155 <http://dev.aol.com/blog/3155> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ironpython.com/listinfo.cgi/users-ironpython.com
