Re: elvis package

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> wrote:
> >> I'm pretty sure that a program must be either entirely GPLed,
> >> or contain no GPLed parts.  

In message <[🔎] 19980422182703.59572@hazel>, Raul Miller writes:
> >More precisely, the non-gpled parts must not have terms which prevent
> >compliance with the gpled parts.

Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpbs@debian.org> wrote:
> Before they are incorporated into the GPLed program, yes, but not
> afterwards. Please read the "viral clause" of the GPL, clause 2(b):
>
>     You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
>     whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
>     part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
>     parties under the terms of this License.

This just means that if you can't distribute the program under the terms
of the GPL you can't distribute it.

Please notice the phrase "licensed as a whole".  It's not saying that
you have to change licenses on included fragments.  It's saying that
the fragments have to be compatible.

This clause makes it clear that you can't (for example) distribute
some of troll-tech stuff as a part of a gpl'd program.

-- 
Raul


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