Does Sun adopt Gnome ?

Martin Konold konold at alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Fri Aug 18 12:19:53 UTC 2000


On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Brian Behlendorf wrote:

Hi

> community *should* be applauding) is for the gradual replacement of
closed
> components of these systems with open components.  Some people, instead,  

AFAIK some Debian people interpret the GPL in such a way that it does not
allow to link applications to libraries with non free licenses IF the
GPL'd apps are shipped together with the the non free OS. In this case the
"exception clause" is said to be invalid.
  
Regards,
-- martin





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