[plug] KDE licence (was Debian was Mandrake)

Trevor Phillips phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au
Fri Feb 25 15:06:44 WST 2000


Greg Mildenhall wrote:
> 
> Have you read the GPL recently? It is pretty clear that it _does_not_ give
> you permission to link to non-GPLed software.
> 
> "2.b.) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
> whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part
> thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under
> the terms of this License."

As a whole, I keep getting the impression that GPL is a pain in the butt. ^_^
(Xenophobic to other licenses?)

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