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Re: IBM public license



> > But when you
> > distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work based
> > on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of
> > this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the
> > entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it.

Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net> wrote:
> This clearly states that the parts I reuse from the IBM-licenses
> program must be GPL-licensed when I distribute my program. Which IBM
> does not allow me to.

Yes: the IBM license lets a contributor put another license on the
program, but doesn't let it be transitive -- which excludes the GPL.
I was wondering if there were any *other* issues besides that one.
Bruce had indicated that there were.

That's what I was asking about.

-- 
Raul


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