Re: [POSITION SUMMARY] Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian

[bts@alum.mit.edu (Brian T. Sniffen)]

Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> writes:

> I have thus, even with STENOG included, satisfied the terms of the
> INVERT license.
>
> Now, there is a potential problem. Remember that scripting language
> mentioned before? If someone were to write a script that used both
> INVERT and STENOG, and then distribute that script, there might be a
> problem. But that's an issue for another thread.
>
> This is no different from perl/python/whatever modules under different
> licenses.

I think this is a quite reasonable summary of the situation.  I will
point out that further distributors who wish to distribute AIE and
INVERT will essentially be bound by the GPL with regards to AIE, even
though it is under the MIT/X11 license: they received it under the
terms of the GPL, not under the terms of the X11 license.

-Brian

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