A question about bundling smart with our distribution
Anders F Björklund
afb at algonet.se
Mon Sep 6 14:23:01 PDT 2010
Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>> So as long as you contribute any changes you make to Smart...
>
> That's not entirely the case. If the code is a change in Smart, or is
> using Smart as a library, it must be licensed as GPL too. That's the
> very basis of the GPL license, so we can't simply dismiss it or the
> license would have no value.
Sorry, I was not being clear. I meant for the _specific_ issue of
distributing Smart with a system a non-GPL-compatible libc library.
For the code using Smart, the standard GPLv2+ rules would apply...
But to me it is OK with running Smart (GPL) on a Sun libc (CDDL) OS.
--anders
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