I know some people who're thinking of moving their proprietary products to GPL instead, but they want to be able to link to some jakarta jar-files. (obnoxiously ad-clause-licensed, iirc)
I suggested using the GPL with an exception clause (since the company is sole copyright holder of the software at the moment). a) How do you think that suggestion clause should look? b) Would they be allowed to link to real GPL stuff like the readline library? They wouldn't be able to include GPL-ed code in their GPL-ed (with exception) code, right? This is sad and confusing. Does anyone have a solution? Iirc, RMS said that the KDE/QPL-problem would've been okay if the kde-team had explicitly given permission to link with QPL-ed stuff. Was he talking about an exception clause? This being written in java complicates things even more. They link to Suns standard java libraries, also. This isn't Debian related... yet. At one point in time they'll want the software to be in main, I guess. Thank you very much for any help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
