On 05 Aug 2004 08:54:42 -0400, Ben Winslow wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 08:39, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> > Returning to the GPL or LGPL license tweaking. Developers may use any
> > license they want, but they should be aware, if they change the canonical
> > license, the software is no longer freely mixable with all other software
> > under the canonical license. If you want to be the most helpful to
> > others, use the canonical license, don't invent your own changes to it,
> > there is no need to have isolated sets of GPL'd and almost GPL'd software.
> FWIW, the "or any later version" bit isn't part of the license itself,
> but rather the suggested usage of the license (under the 'How to Apply
> These Terms to Your New Programs' section, after the terms and
> conditions.) The Linux kernel, for example, doesn't include the '...any
> later version' wording; in fact, it explicitly states this to not be so
> (see COPYING in the top of the kernel source tree.)
This is incorrect. Download the license text (GNU GPL version 2), it
includes the canonical wording at lines 299.
As for the kernel, yes, I can't freely mix any code from the kernel to
fvwm since the licenses are almost the same, but not the same. This only
proves my point. Most of the software uses the canonical GPL v2+, so
there is no any problem to mix between fvwm and other such software.
Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Thu Aug 05 2004 - 08:23:02 BST