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Re: FWD: Bug#121916: analog should be in non-free



Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

> Nevertheless, I do not think it is the FSF's intention to forbid
> otherwise GPL-compatible licenses from requiring that their own license
> texts be preserved in GPL'ed derivative works.

It's certainly not the intention; such a reading is obviously
fallacious given the FSF's own practice.  (Many parts of the C
library, for example, retain the copyrights [including the "don't
remove this" clause] of the upstream origins; the LGPL and the GPL do
not differ in this regard.)

Thomas



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