Siebrand Mazeland wrote:
> Occasionally I visit Ohloh.net to satisfy my stats addiction.
> 
> One of the things Ohloh analyses in the source code is license
> information[1]. On the Ohloh MediaWiki page[2] an analysis summary is
> displayed. It contains the following warnings (number of files added by me
> from [1]):
> 
> # Mozilla Public License 1.0 may conflict with GPL (253 files)
> # PHP License may conflict with GPL (7 files)
> # Apache Software License may conflict with GPL (1 file)
> # Artistic License may conflict with GPL (7 files)
> # Common Development and Distribution License may conflict with GPL (1 file)
> # Apache License 2.0 may conflict with GPL (7 files)
> 
> I am wondering if any of these warnings can really point out a licensing
> issue. If they do, I think we need to persue this, and get it sorted out.
> 
> Anyone who can shed some light on this?

The GPL restriction on linking with non-GPL code is irrelevant for a
non-compiled language, when all we're distributing is the source code.
I could find nothing in the GPL that contradicts this interpretation.

Even for mixed-license projects written in C, it's legal to distribute
the source code, just not the compiled binaries.

-- Tim Starling


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