MS-PL/GPL compatibility, was Re: For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License

[Matthew Flaschen]

Chris Travers wrote:
> On 8/23/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
>> Chris Travers wrote:
>>
>>> Or are you reading
>>> this to say that the work as a whole containing MS-PL code must be
>> licensed
>>> as a whole under the MS-PL?
>> Well, I read it as saying (among other things) if there is a license for
>> a work as the whole in source code form, that license must be MS-PL.
> 
> 
> What about a copyright to a compilation of source code works, such as an ISO
> image of a CD containing code from separate MS-PL and GPL applications.

No, because the CD or compilation of unrelated software wouldn't be a
derivative work.

Matt Flaschen