POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous : Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous Server Time
23 Dec 2025 01:18:49 EST (-0500)
  Re: This GPL stuff is getting ridiculous  
From: Warp
Date: 28 Jan 2009 16:06:43
Message: <4980c8e2@news.povray.org>
nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Warp escreveu:
> >   This makes GPL incompatible with all other licenses. This is rather
> > restricting.

> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses

> Apache and Boost are among them.

  Their definition of "compatible" is that you can re-license the other
code to be under the GPL. In other words, you can use non-GPL code in a
GPL program, and publish the entire program under the GPL, effectively
changing the license of the original non-GPL code to GPL.

  What you can't do is take GPL code and use it in a project which uses
a non-GPL license.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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