Re: TODO: GNU TLS

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TODO: GNU TLS
Date: 2006-12-30 18:38:59
Message-ID: 200612301838.kBUIcxI09678@momjian.us
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Stephen Frost wrote:
> Yet *having* that requirement on a *derived work* which includes GPL
> code is *against* the terms of the GPL. That's *exactly* the issue.
> The GPL says more than "you must provide the source code to everything",
> it explicitly includes a requirement that no additional restrictions be
> put on the derivative (lest requirements for no-additional-distribution
> or must-charge-for-other-distribution be added which defeats much of the
> point of the GPL).

Our BSD license has this restriction:

> provided that the above copyright notice and this
> paragraph and the following two paragraphs appear in all copies.

Why is this not an _additional_ restriction, and hence GPL and BSD
software cannot be bundled into a binary? What does "appear in all
copies" mean, especially if you don't need to ship the source code under
the BSD license?

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