Compatibility of the AFL with the GPL

[Rod Dixon]

You are both wrong. The designation of whether one license is incompatible
with the GPL says nothing about "violation." On FSF's website, they
designate some licenses as incompatible with the GPL. The question raised
was why the AFL is included in that list.

Rod


On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, John Cowan wrote:

> Mark Rafn scripsit:
>
> > You lost me after the first GPL violation (putting non-GPL-compatible code
> > in the Linux kernel).
>
> Well, that's a question.  RMS says it's a violation, but that doesn't make it
> one necessarily; Larry, after all, says it isn't one.
>
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