Re: Licensing, was elvis package

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

Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu> wrote:
>   3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
>   under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
>   Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
>                                            ^^^^
>       a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
>           source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
> 	      1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software
> 	      interchange; 

Note that Sections 1 and 2 do NOT require that all the source be
licensed under the same terms.

I don't see any requirement that all code be relicensed under the
GPL, only a "source code available" requirement (and even then
not always, for proprietary operating systems).

[I've taken the liberty of not quoting the rest of the stuff which
basically just re-makes this point.]

-- 
Raul


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