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Re: LPPL and non-discrimination



Glenn Maynard <g_deb@zewt.org> writes:

> A license that says "modify and distribute all you want; keep my name; don't
> add additional restrictions to the license" implicitly requires that you allow
> your modifications to be used proprietarily, since it prevents you from adding
> the GPL's safeguards against it.  I'd find that license to be obnoxious (and
> it'd be incompatible with most other licenses), but it doesn't seem non-free.

Yeah, a viral anti-copyleft license -- that would be odd.  But
probably not non-free, you're right.  But that's not really the same
as requiring that a particular group be able to relicense your code
however they like.

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Jeremy Hankins <nowan@nowan.org>
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