Re: Bug#234477: ITP: logsurfer+ -- real-time system log monitor

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit sean finney <seanius@seanius.net>

> > You'll need to get them to grant permission to distribute modified
> > copies; re-licensing it under the 3-clause BSD or MIT/X licenses (which
> > are both DFSG-free and GPL-compatible) would work, and sound like they
> > do what upstream wants, anyway.

> if the code includes gpl source code, doesn't that mean the code has to
> be GPL'd too?

No, it only has to be offered under a license that gives all of the
freedoms that the GPL gives. It is OK to use a more permissive
license, as long as it is GPL compatible.

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