On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 09:27:57PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> > so i think (and i may propose to the gnu project one of these days)
> > that a proper copyleft should allow the licensee to sublicense
> > the product under any license that preserves the rights and
> > restrictions that are important to the license (including of
> > course the sublicensing clause).
>
> Er.. the GPL already has this.
Not according to an email I got from RMS about compatibility between the
GPL and other licenses. The only license that the GPL is compatible with
based on his discription is the X license because in addition to the
license attached to the code (which happens not to conflict with the GPL)
you may quite literally prepend the GPL to the X license.
The LGPL achieves similar effect artificially by allowing you to
relicense the code as GPL at will.
FWIW I disagree with the above, I'm just repeating what RMS indicated to
me over the course of the flam^H^H^H^Hdiscussions while the QPL was still
in draft form.
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