On Fri, May 28, 1999 at 09:32:53AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Mark Rafn wrote: > > > On the gripping hand, if the owner of the copyright for abiword (which may > > not be a well-defined entity if significant contributions have been made > > by multiple people under GPL) chooses to link against restricted libs, > > that's fine and dandy, as permission to do so is granted, by definition, > > to oneself. This hybrid can't go in Debian (unless its released under a > > different license than GPL), but nobody has broken any laws. > > I don't want to start a flame war here... so let's be careful. > > In your above example, the _hydrid_ would be created and > distributed by the owner of the copyright, and it still couldn't > go into Debian. Right? > > It's a little weird to me. If the upstream author links against > Qt or XForms and releases under the GPL, doesn't that nullify > whatever GPL clause against that? For example, take lyx in > instable (I know people disagree with me on this interpretation). > It's under the GPL and links against XForms. It doesn't have an > exception clause, but rather `remarks' clarifying the license: If only law was so simple! You presume something resembling a little common sense. Don't presume that when dealing with lawyers. Remember the woman who sued because her coffee was hot.... -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer PGP: E8D68481E3A8BB77 8EE22996C9445FBE The Source Comes First! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The software required Win95 or better, so I installed Linux.
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