somebody wrote:
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
> news:4980c417$1@news.povray.org...
> 
>> If I include libjpg without modifying it at all, I can no longer use the
> MIT
>> license on my code,
> 
> So what? 

So you said "The GPL only affects those who modify the code." This is 
factually wrong, as evidenced by my example.

So that's the freedom that the GPL takes away from the user of the MIT 
license.  Since you asked.

And if I wanted to take some code licensed with the GPL and some code 
licensed with something more restrictive and combine the two, I couldn't.



> It's not your god given right to be able to use MIT license.

I'm not sure where I said it was.

I said the GPL restricts one person's freedom in return for another's, while 
some other licenses don't. You act like this isn't true, so I'm trying to 
explain it. Now that I realize that you understand this is true and just 
don't want to phrase it that way because then it wouldn't sound "free!" then 
I'll stop discussing it.

> That's some convoluted thinking. Libjpg is an option. You can take it or
> leave it. Its existance doesn't force anything on you.

But the license does.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."

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