[OT] open-source license issues

"Jérôme M. Berger" jeberger at free.fr
Tue Apr 12 11:11:33 PDT 2011


Daniel Gibson wrote:
> Am 12.04.2011 12:45, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
>> Actually, because of that, I could likely be enticed by an (L)GPL-like 
>> license if it was actually readable like zlib, BSD, or MIT, and easier for 
>> users/developers to comply with.
>>
> 
> Even though the GPL isn't easy to read I think it's not too hard to
> comply with (at least v2). Basically it's "release the source of your
> changes, don't mix in source from incompatible licenses and don't delete
the original authors from the GPL headers"

	Not quite: you not only have to release the source of *your*
changes, but you also have to distribute the *whole* source (whether
you made any changes or not).

		Jerome
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