On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 05:18:45PM +0100, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Denis Barbier <bou...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2009/2/10, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > [...]
> >> Robert, I owe you an answer on why the OCTPL is GPL-incompatible.
> >> IANAL, TINLA, TINASOTODP, etc. but here goes:
> >> * 4. para 4: "If you distribute or sublicense the Software (as
> >> modified by You or on Your behalf as the case may be), You cause
> >> such Software to be licensed as a whole, at no charge, to all
> >> third parties..." The GPL does not require "at no charge", and
> >> even expressly allows charging for software, so this is an
> >> additional restriction beyond the GPL.
> >
> > GPL 2, 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.
> >
> >> * 4. para 5: "You document all Your Modifications, indicate the
> >> date of each such Modifications, designate the version of the
> >> Software You used..." None of this is required by the GPL, so
> >> all of these are additional restrictions.
> >
> > GPL 2, section 2.a)
> > You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
> > stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
> >
> > To me, OCTPL 6.3 (as found in OpenCascade sources, not the one
> > at the website, which is outdated IIRC) is identical to LGPL 2.1, they
> > paraphrased it, and I believe that OCTPL 6.3 is compatible with GPL.
>
> Interesting. I assume this would mean that works combining GPL and
> OCTPL code (such as FreeCAD) would be acceptable to Debian main?
>
> Would it make sense to send a note about the GPL compatibility of
> OCTPL and its similarity to LGPL to the FTP-master? Maybe this would
> get OpenCascade out of the NEW queue, it's been sitting there 4 months
> already.
I have two questions:
- Why not discuss it in debian-legal?
- If they're effectively the same, why did they bother writing a new
license? Perhaps their interpretation is not the same.
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