[OpenAFS-devel] Re: "openafs" man page

[Andrew Deason]

On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:19:34 +0000
Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 23 Feb 2010, at 21:01, Andrew Deason wrote:
> 
> >> [...] ruling out GPL as we have to because of the IBM Public License
> >> incompatibility (even apart from any other issues).
> > 
> > Erm, even contributions that don't touch IPL stuff? Not that I can
> > imagine myself wanting to submit anything under a GPL-y license.
> 
> Unless the GPL'd code has an additional license clause which
> specifically permits linking with IPL'd code, you can't distribute an
> object file which contains code from both licenses. This is a
> non-starter for our binary packagers.

By not 'touch'ing I meant: does not link against IPL code, is not
derivative of IPL code, is not copied from IPL code, etc.

-- 
Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net