[License-review] License compatibility for FOSS aggregations

[John Cowan]

Lawrence Rosen scripsit:

> Even if those later versions are also not derivative? They frequently
> aren't, you know. Not every piece of linking proprietary code relies on
> knowing how GPL programs work or are derived from them.

And so say you, and so say even I, but *not* "and so say we all".

> Please don't resort to excuses like "according to the way most people think
> about it." Most people *may* be wrong. :-) In this situation, Linus Torvalds
> is not going to be able to affect, in any way, the concurrent use of
> non-derivative copyrighted works as long as his FOSS license is
> OSD-compliant.

Unless a judge decides that Linus and Richard are right and Larry and John
are wrong.  As he well may, someday, and let us hope that day never comes.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There are
no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that
they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit