On Jul 23, 2008, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> Your freedom to distribute the improvement is respected >> by the GPL, but not by the combination of the licenses you accepted. > Why do you consider that acceptable? It's undesirable, indeed, but what's to stop people from inventing intentionally-incompatible licenses or accepting them? The GNU GPL was the first copyleft license. It was incompatible with other licenses that preceded it because they did not grant the rights the GPL was intended to grant, and it was not deemed appropriate to give up those rights for the sake of compatibility with them. Can't really fault the GPL for that, can you? Other copyleft and non-copyleft licenses followed that were designed specifically to be incompatible with the GPL, to prevent code sharing. Can't fault the GPL for that, can you? If you think that's unacceptable, why did you accept the less permissive or artificially incompatible license that got you into this situation? If you accepted them, you think that's acceptable. If you don't want to accept them, talk the copyright holders into changing their minds and permit you to respect others' freedoms while not granting them the power to not respect third parties' freedoms. Anyhow, where does this leave you? Does "barking up the wrong tree" mean anything to you? > That is, why do you believe is it right for one license to have any > affect on the terms of another? Moo. Does "when did you stop beating your wife?" mean anything to you? :-) I don't believe that is right, and the GPL doesn't do any such thing. This license you invented that you call GPL and spend your life complaining about might do that, but then, that's between you and your imagination. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
