RE: GTK Netscape is impossible

[Paul Hepworth <phepworth s-vision com>]

> From:	Gregor Hoffleit [SMTP:flight@thefly.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de]
> Even if GTK was licensed under the GPL (not LGPL): It's completely fine to
> mix GPL and non-GPL code, as long as the license of the other code is
> `compatible' with the GPL, i.e. the license has to grant enough rights to
> fulfill the conditions of the GPL (availability of the source, right to
> modify etc.). The NPL has been designed to grant you these rights. Look at
> http://www.opensource.org. There's probably the press release by Bruce
> Perens from the Debian project in which he comments on the NPL draft.
> Specifically it states that the NPL is compliant to the Debian Free
> Software Guidelines; in short you could say that any software that is DFSG
> compliant can be mixed with GPL code.
> 
This is not true.  You can mix GPL code with code that is as-free-as or
freer than the GPL only, i.e. under a license that complies with the GPL.
The NPL is most certainly not as free as the GPL; it has many restrictions
that GPL does not have.  (Read them both.)


Paul