POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous : Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous Server Time
25 Jun 2024 22:44:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous  
From: Warp
Date: 28 Jan 2009 12:21:04
Message: <498093ff@news.povray.org>
nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> It's just that through that license
> you promote and allow your licensed work to be used and modified by others, as
> long as they don't try to pull a smarty and deny others that same right.

  GPL goes beyond that. It prohibits you from using GPL'd code in a program
under some other license, even if that other license would be as free as
(or even more free than) GPL. Just because it's *not* GPL is enough for it
to be inadmissible, regardless of what kind of license it would be.

  This makes GPL incompatible with all other licenses. This is rather
restricting.

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                                                          - Warp


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