Juergen Weigert
If you strictly follow the claims from the GPL [...], the GPL would be incompatible to any other license including BSD
No. Our legal authorities allow me to consider them compatible. I am happy with that.
You seem to missinterpret my text. You of course may legally combine BSDl and GPL code - but not the way the GPL likes to define things as this violates the US Copyright law and as this does not apply in Europe due to the rules for "terms of business conditions" that permit you to use the most client friendly interpretation in case of confusing or contradicting claims. If you correctly read me: "If you strictly follow the claims from the GPL" you will understand that I am correct. The GPL likes to define that every code combination with the GPL is a so called "derivative work" and that all other code must be under the GPL. Well - the BSDl does not have an explicit permission to modify the license and the lyw forbids to modify the license, so you cannot changethe license of BSD code to GPL. You may however legally correct combine GPL and BSD software as a so called "collective work". Your legal authorities obviously depend on the latter....
Please check the table at: http://www.osscc.net/en/licenses.html#compatibility
Thanks for the pointer. This is helpful to start with. Your compatibility table is still too implicit for us. I'd like to see compatibility columns spelled out for the most frequent licenses. GPLv2 compatible: yes/no/? GPLv3 compatible: yes/no/? MPL compatible: yes/no/? ...
Just as a note: the CDDL can be seen as MPLv2 as it fixes several problems with the MPL and European law.
In any case, before copying unsourced statements from a non-neutral site, it makes sense to look at the OpenSOource definition [...]
I am not bothered by non-neutral opinion. I have no problem quoting several (even contradicting) sources side by side, as long as we can clearly see who says what.
I sens my comments because there has been only a pointer to one single non-neutral side. I see no problem if there is an abstraction from views by pointing to different opinions. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org