Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes
* martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> [060512 09:50]:
> also sprach Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> [2006.05.12.0758 +0200]:
> > This means that you need to either license your work under the
> > GPL, or a license which is compatible with the GPL. [It also means
> > that you'll need to provide your source code, but one would hope
> > you were going to do that anyway.]
>
> Which means that I, if I wanted to use cxxtools from my code, would
> need to relicence all of my code (Artistic Licence) to a new licence
> (Clarified Artistic Licence), which is not even available on
> fsf.org, gnu.org, or opensource.org, only on some independent server
> in Italy.
So cxxtools authors should allow you to use their code in your
application even if they are not allowed to use your code in theirs?
This is of course no unreasonable petition, but I suggest noone to
fullfil it without additional reasons.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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