[copyleft-next] Allow linking with any FSF/OSI approved license

Luis Villa luis at tieguy.org
Sun Sep 2 01:29:14 UTC 2012


On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Richard Fontana <fontana at sharpeleven.org> wrote:
> A GitHub person recently reported the following issue:
>
> - begin -
> IMHO one of the worst problems of the GPL is that it don't allows
> linking (static or dynamic) programs licensed under the GPL with some
> of the FSF/OSI approved licenses (OpenSSL,CDDL,PHP License...)
>
> I think it will be a good idea to add an exception to this license
> that allows linking the software with ANY of the licenses considered
> as free software license by the FSF/OSI while at the same time forbids
> to link the software with any proprietary license.
>
> Perhaps something like:
>
> In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
> permission to link the code of portions of this program with any
> software licensed under a license that satisfies either the Free
> Software Definition, version 1.111, as published by the Free Software
> Foundation ("FSF") or the Open Source Definition, as published by
> the Open Source Initiative, and distribute linked combinations
> including the two.

Without reviewing the text deeply, the concept gets a strong +1 from me.

Luis


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