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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: GPL traitor ! |
Date: | Wed, 20 May 2009 14:53:40 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) |
Alexander Terekhov wrote:
http://opensource.org/docs/osd "9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software The license must not place restrictions on other software that is distributed along with the licensed software. For example, the license must not insist that all other programs distributed on the same medium must be open-source software. "
"Distributed along with" is the same as "mere aggregation". It does not cover statically linked executables. In any case, a listing of open source licenses prepared by some organization is not binding on anything.
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