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

[Simon Wilkinson]

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).
>=20
> 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.

Cheers,

Simon.