Re: Debian i386 freeze
> Raul Miller wrote:
> >Stephan Kulow <coolo@itm.mu-luebeck.de> wrote:
> >> But it's definitly cool. When I started with Linux I thought, I could
> >> do everything I want with it, but now that I started developing, it
> >> looks, GPL is more restrictive than free.
> >
> >The GPL was designed for free software, to keep it free. If you don't
> >want that, use a different license.
> >
> >You don't have to use the GPL on software you write. If you require
> >that your code be linked with non-free code (code that doesn't meet the
> >conditions of Debian's Free Software Guidelines is non-free) then the
> >GPL does not accomplish what you want.
> >
> >You can still use the GPL, but you MUST also provide some other license
> >to make it possible to link against the non-free code. Personally,
> >I'd suggest Perl's "Artistic License" if you want to require your code
> >be linked against non-free code.
>
>
> NO NO NO!!!
>
> The authors of a package can do what they like! The GPL stops you making a
> derivative work and putting it under a more restrictive licence. But kde
> are the original authors, so this does not apply!!!!!
THEY can do what they like.
WE on the other hand are bound by the license that the Author choose.
In this case, they have chosen a licence that prohibits us from distributing
binaries. If that is not their intent, they must change their licence.
> The GPL has NO authority over the original authors; they can vary it as
> they please (though not by changing its text, since its copyright does
> not allow that - they have to make separate announcements, which they
> have done.)
Right. The original authors can, but we cannot, and neither can those we
distribute to. What difference does it make to us, what the original authors
are allowed to do with their own code.
Cheers, Phil.
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