An explanation of the difficulty of solving licenseproliferation in one sentence
Ian Lance Taylor
ian at airs.com
Wed Mar 9 19:33:31 UTC 2005
"Forrest J. Cavalier III" <mibsoft at mibsoftware.com> writes:
> Finally, mixing is almost never required. Most creators of
> derivatives have no need to mix code under two different licenses
> because they create adaptations which will retain the license.
> So we are arguing over what? Less than 1% of the reuse cases?
I really could not disagree more. I have seen many cases of attempts
to mix code with incompatible licenses. The most obvious ones are BSD
people rewriting GPL library functions for GNU/Linux compatibility.
Ian
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