On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:21:04 -0500, Warp wrote:

> 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.

But protective of the rights of the original author, which is the 
underlying goal.

Jim

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