On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > I would still maintain that "Option 3" is not compatible with GPL > though. While the license doesn't explicitly forbid copying the text > under the license into another specification, it effectively forbids it > by not allowing it. I'll note that GPL doesn't limit itself to "explicit > restrictions", but rather restrictions in general. Indeed. There are non-forking-related restrictions too, e.g. it doesn't allow use in hardware devices, as far as I can tell. Lawrence never publicly replied to my e-mail on the subject: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2011Mar/0209.html (Search in particular for the bit where I quote the GPL FAQ.) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Wednesday, 23 March 2011 01:17:27 UTC
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