[Xorg] Dynamic mouse accelaration
Sean Middleditch
elanthis at awesomeplay.com
Mon Jun 7 08:35:59 PDT 2004
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 11:23, Ely Levy wrote:
> GPL never changes the license of anything, the only question is if its
> GPL compatible or not, and as stated in FSF site the new BSD/MIT licenses
> are GPL compatible and therefore can be used.
> for example linking staticly to xlibs by a GPL app doesn't make xlibs
> GPLed, and the other way around for BSD licensed program linking to GPLed
> library. (I'm sure google would provide few examples).
I think you are missing the point. A GPL work cannot, in spirit, be
linked to any non-GPL compatible code. Thus, if you link a GPL module
to the X sources, then those sources become *implicitly* GPL. Their
license does not change, but they now have the properties of the GPL
because you cannot link non-GPL compatible modules to those sources so
long as the GPL module is also linked in. You can't link a GPL module
to BSD source that links to non-Free source. That is a loophole that
the GPL explicitly tries to defend itself against. Otherwise,
proprietary software houses could take any GPL code they want, make a
thin BSD licensed wrapper, and link it all in to their non-Free
application.
>
> Ely
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Sean Middleditch <elanthis at awesomeplay.com>
AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.
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