Re: Artistic & BSD+ad
On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 12:03:22PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> Is it okay to link an application which is licensed under the Artistic
> license with a library which is licensed under the BSD license (partially
> with and partially without the ad clause)?
I don't see why it wouldn't be. The Artistic License allows linking against
pretty much anything.
> I just noticed that NetBSD libedit has compatibility wrappers for GNU
> readline, and I'd like to link Hugs against it ;-)
Are these the library wrappers Tom Christianson was yelling about so
loudly on gnu.misc.discuss this summer? i.e. does Hugs eventually
link against GNU readline? If so, I'd consider it questionably within
the letter of the GPL and definetly against its spirit.
One thing I might try is to get RMS to give a special exception for Hugs,
as somewhere on gnu.org, they say they will sometimes permit a free software
project to use GPL code under a license more compatible with their project.
David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
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