Re: Looking for an open source license..

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:05:13 +0200, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:

> "Karen Hill" <karen_hill22@yahoo.com> writes:

> > The freedom license states that if you own the copyright a piece of
> > GPL software, you have permission to relicense the "Freedom License
> > Software" to the GPL but in exchange you must release a "Freedom
> > Licensed" version of your GPL software. Quid Pro Quo.  Other than
> > that clause, the Freedom License is exactly like the BSD license.
>
> It is also GPL-incompatible.

Hardly. No GPL licensed software is being distributed with further
restrictions.
That's also why it doesn't work as the Freedom License's author intended.

I can take a Freedom Licensed library and convert it to GPL by  
simultaneously
releasing my program under the Freedom License. So I create a trivial,  
minimal
GPL program and use the Freedom License'ed software with it, and get a GPL
licensed version with not further restrictions. The trivial code is  
released
under both GPL and Freedom License, making the world no richer.

I then use the GPL version of the library with my real software.

/L
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