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Re: Is libreludedb DFSG compliant?



Scripsit Arnoud Engelfriet <arnoud@engelfriet.net>
> Henning Makholm wrote:

>> Why on earth do they not just license it as GPL straight away? That
>> would not prevent them from offering other license terms in addition
>> for a fee (or without one) as they see fit.

> They may be worried about whether dynamic linking against their
> software creates a derivative work. With that language, they try to
> take away that worry.

I am aware of that controversy, yet it is not even clear to me in
which direction the proposed language is supposed to resolve it.

-- 
Henning Makholm                    "There is a danger that curious users may
                          occasionally unplug their fiber connector and look
                      directly into it to watch the bits go by at 100 Mbps."



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