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Rep:Re: [f-cpu] The last killing argument FOR the GPL licence



What the opinion of others ?

GPL are really well written by lawyer, and it will be hard to be
carefull of many different legal point ina new licence.

Before writing something, it could be nice to have a list of feature not
present inside the GPL.

nicO

-----Message d'origine-----
De: Yann Guidon <whygee@f-cpu.org>
A: f-cpu@seul.org
Date: 24/04/02
Objet: Re: [f-cpu] The last killing argument FOR the GPL licence

hi,

Nicolas Boulay wrote:
> 
> I just disover one very important point for us inside the GPL FAQ.
> 
>
http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingOverControlledInterface
> ---
> How can I allow linking of proprietary modules with my GPL-covered
> library under a controlled interface only?
> Add this text to the license notice of each file in the package, at
the
> end of the text that says the file is distributed under the GNU GPL:
> 
>     Linking FOO statically or dynamically with other modules is making
a
> combined work based on FOO.  Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU
> General Public License cover the whole combination.
<snip> 
> ---
> 
> So this interface could be the bus interface to the outside only (the
> internal bus of the chip, the wishbone ?).

Whenever i can, i'll release a proposal version for a "F-CPU license".
Neither GPL or LGPL seem to satisfy me.

> nicO
WHYGEE
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