Re: FWD: Bug#121916: analog should be in non-free
On 6 Dec 2001, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> 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.)
>
I realise that it's not the FSF's intention. But I still don't see how they
reconcile it with the actual text of the GPL. Does anyone have any insight
into this, or should I just mail them?
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