Compatibility of the AFL with the GPL

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Thu Mar 13 01:37:12 UTC 2003


Brian Behlendorf scripsit:

> My common-sense, non-lawyer brain says that if person B says W+X or W' are
> under the GPL, it's really "GPL to Person B plus AFL to Person A." It
> appears to be Stallman's opinion, and it would be mine as well, that this
> cannot be the case, as the GPL prevents "additional restrictions", without
> a qualifier as to which party those restrictions are enforced by.

I agree.

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