Re: Transitive closure of licenses
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 06:09:38PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> It's not so hard to imagine a similar situation outside of TeX-world.
> To quote a recently seen example:
>
> nautilus -> libgnomevfs0
>
> If you rebuild libgnomevfs0 and link it to OpenSSL, then you change the
> license status of nautilus. Think libgnomevfs0 as "A" and nautilus as
> "B".
That's due to changes in license relationships, though, not due to
features being added or removed. I can still make whatever feature
changes I want to OpenSSL without changing the freeness of libgnomevfs0
or nautilus.
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Glenn Maynard
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