Re: IBM doesn't like the GPL

[Hyman Rosen]

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> The Apache License says that any distribution of such "combined" work
> must include a copy the Apache License because it (the Apache License,
> not the GPL) governs employed preexisting material licensed under the
> Apache License.

Combined works that include GPLed code must be licensed as a whole under
the GPL, and then also under the conditions imposed by the non-GPLed
components. If all the conditions can be simultaneously satisfied, then
the combined work may be copied and distributed, otherwise it may not.

> Don't you know that the ASF doesn't agree with the FSF regarding
> purported "incompatibility" to the GPLv2?

So what?