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Re: New license for UW-IMAP



On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:44:55AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> >I urge the Debian community to reject this license; it looks to me like it
> >might fail DFSG #9.
> 
> "License Must Not Contaminate Other Software"? Really? I think it would
> be a strange interpretation of a "Distribution" of UW-IMAP that extended
> to other Debian packages.

[flame shield up]

How does the GPL "Not Contaminate Other Software" when any software
that so much as links to GPL'd code has restrictions placed on its
license?

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