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Re: a better copyleft licence



On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Barak Pearlmutter wrote:
> 
> Ie it's okay to distribute it linked so something else that's
> incompatible with the GPL for some "lame" reason, but not with
> something that's incompatible with the GPL because it's not free or
> doesn't include sources.
> 

I seriously doubt whether you're going to be able to pin this concept down
in a precise way. Maybe you should just invite future authors to contact you
and consider their requests on a case-by-case basis.

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