On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 19:17 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:30:08AM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, though I'd argue mixing-n-matching licenses within a (single)
> > package is bad form.
>
> No, there are countless packages with differently licensed files in
> them. GPL+LGPL, GPL+(new)BSD, GPL+MIT, MIT+BSD, and on and on and on...
In those cases the whole package is under the GPL (and, arguably
MIT/BSD are almost the same). When there are other mixes it may be less
clear.
No, not really, you can have a package that provide different binaries.
For example the samba package is mostly GPL software except for
pam_winbind and nss_winbind, which are not under the GPL. The "whole
package" does not mean much. It's the single binaries+libraries that
count.
I can very well see us distributing something like, let's say Xorg, with
a little GPLed GUI in the same package, this does not make the whole
package GPLed.
Simo.