Re: Copyleft variation of MIT license
On Mon, 02 Apr 2007, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
> Don Armstrong wrote:
> > You propose to create another copyleft license which is
> > incompatible with many other widely use copyleft licenses.
>
> Could you please explain how it is incompatible with popular
> copyleft licenses?
Most copyleft licenses are intrinsically incompatible with eachother;
but in this case, it's because you are specifically restricting the
distribution of binaries beyond what the GPL restricts. Since the
combination of code under your license and the GPL cannot be
distributed exactly under the terms of the GPL, it cannot, as a
consequence, be distributed at all.
Don Armstrong
--
It has always been Debian's philosophy in the past to stick to what
makes sense, regardless of what crack the rest of the universe is
smoking.
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