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Re: DFSG Par. 9 and GPL "Virulogical" effekt



On Sat, Apr 22, 2000, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> The paragraph says "License Must NOT Contaminate Other Software".
> As Debian and the FSF agree that the GPL and QPL are incompatible
> and this is mainly the cause of the GPL which requires "the whole work"
> distributed under "THIS license" this means a contamination into other
> "programs" read: QT2 

   Distributing a GPLed program and QT2 on the same medium is perfectly
legal, thus there is no contamination. What is not tolerated is mixing
QT2 and some GPL code to form a new piece of software. One might call
this contamination, but it does not contaminate _other_ software.

Sam.
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Only try to remember the truth : there is no Cabal.


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