Re: Licensing issues with a research project

[David Kastrup]

John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:

> Tassilo writes:
>> Well, still the EPL FAQ [1] says, that you cannot combine GPL with EPL
>> code in one module.
>
> Unless you are the copyright owner, in which case you can make an
> explicit exception.  Remember, these are model licenses, not laws.

Make that "the sole copyright owner".  And "GPL with exception" is not
compatible with "GPL", so the "GPL" in its name is misleading: you don't
get to mix this with other GPL software.

There is a thin ledge of what you can actually do: you can add some
declaration of intent, like "if you use the plugin interface, we don't
consider the resulting whole as more than a agglomeration of
components".  But this is a guarantee just from one side: it mostly will
just work for letting GPL-compatibly licensed extensions (from third
parties) retain their individual more lenient licenses even after
modifications.

-- 
David Kastrup