License Committee Report for July 2007

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Tue Jul 31 22:46:51 UTC 2007


Alexander Terekhov scripsit:

> Speaking of which, how does that (LGPLv3 aside) relates to OSD#9:
> "License Must Not Restrict Other Software... Rationale: Distributors
> of open-source software have the right to make their own choices about
> their own software"?

Software that your program links to does not count as "other software".

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