Re: [dev] [GENERAL] License manifest

From: Markus Wichmann <nullplan_AT_gmx.net>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 20:19:01 +0200

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 01:46:02PM -0600, Anthony J. Bentley wrote:
> Example: LibreCAD, a fork of QCad, which had been relicensed by the
> authoring company under the GPLv2. LibreCAD wanted to support AutoCAD's
> DWG file format. Unluckily for them, LibreDWG (a FSF project) is licensed
> GPLv3+, and the FSF refused to relicense. The GPL made the code so free
> they couldn't use it.
>
> Example: the SMB implementations in Samba (GPLv3+) and the WSL kernel
> (GPLv2), which literally cannot share even a single line of code. It's
> really fascinating that people seem to love the idea of a license that is
> so easily made incompatible with _itself_.
>

Amazing! Version incompatibilities in GPL! Well, it is an FSF product
(seriously, after Glibc and Java EE 7 both having version incompatibilities
and interdependencies, and binutils being in that mix, too, is it any
wonder less and less people grow tired of GNU-ware?)
Received on Tue May 13 2014 - 20:19:01 CEST