Hi, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Moritz Lenz said: >> Hello, >> >> I want to debianize EiffelStudio, a compiler and IDE for the programming >> language eiffel. It is dual-licenced under a commercial licence and >> under GPL. >> Included in EiffelStudio is the so called "Base Library", released under >> the GPL as well. This library is absolutely nesseary for programming >> with eiffel, you are not able to write any program that does not use the >> "Base Library". >> With this licencing model you are forced to release your programs >> written in EiffelStudio (GPL version) under the GPL as well. >> >> Can we regard this software as dfsg compatible? > > Absolutely. It is a viral license, but that is the point, and Debian > considers the GPL to be free. I know that GPL is free in dfsg-terms, I was just unsure because in this case it limits your control over the results of your work (A new program can hardly be considered as "derived work" from a library it barely uses, can it?). But if there are no doubts in this case I'm glad ;) Best regards, Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/
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