On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 09:46 +0000, Niall Douglas wrote:
On 23 Mar 2005 at 9:16, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
Including code from non-free libraries will make your package non-free. > > Not true. The result would be illegal, not
non-free. For it to > be legal the whole work has to be licensed under the GNU GPL.
And what you've just said is completely untrue
,----[ The GNU General Public License - Section 2 ] | b. You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that | in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program | or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge | to all third parties under the terms of this License. `----
There is a HUGE difference between "under the terms of this License" and "under this License". The former means what I said, the latter what you said.
And there is a HUGE difference between "under the terms of *this* license" and "under terms equivalent to those of this license"
To me the text seems quite clear. But I've thought, before, as you seem to do now, so I hope you'll eventually come to understand it as well.
Rui