Re: Licensing issues with a research project

[Rjack]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
>
> > Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
> >
> > > Tassilo Horn wrote: [...]
> > > > Or what's the general approach to open-source projects using
> > > >  both GPL and possibly incompatible licenses?
> > > Ignore the allegedly "GPL incompatibility" nonsense.
> > So that means that we are allowed to release the whole thing 
> > unter Eclipse Public License and having some GPL libs bundled is
> >  "somewhat ok"?  Some kind of a gentlemen agreement aka "Well, 
> > it's not quite compatible but since it is free in most regards, 
> > nobody will enforce each and every detail".
>
> Ignore the "Alexander Terekhov" nonsense.

Yeah... ignore the birth certificate too. Reality is irrelevant.
Obama's undoubtedly a Kenyan.

Welcome, GNUtian DAK, to the Birther's Club...

> As long as you get every single copyright holder to agree, you can
>  make use of whatever gentlemen agreement you want (but it might 
> restrict people who are not in the deal).  If not, you need to heed
>  the conditions of every single license on every piece of code. 
> Where you exceed the threshold of mere aggregation of independent 
> components, the licenses might place restrictions on distribution 
> of the resulting whole.
>
> That is nothing peculiar to the GPL.
Sincerely,
Rjack