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Re: The draft Position statement on the GFDL



On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 04:51:05PM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote:
> Hi Raul. I'm trying to understand your argument, in this one you lose 
> me, time after time: when is forbidden by de GPL making copies of one's 
> derived works? I know it's forbidden to distribute such copies under 
> other license, but ...?!

When the derived works do not satisfy all the requirements of the GPL.

For example: you can't take code from gcc and code from metafont and
combine them to build a new compiler -- at least not under the current
licenses of those programs.

-- 
Raul



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