[Pkg-nx-group] New situation with NX 3.0 and debian

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 04:09:19PM +0200, Eric DECORNOD wrote:
> Le vendredi 6 juillet 2007 15:53, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann a écrit :
> > The changes in nx-X11 are licensed under the GPL2-only, not acceptable for
> > X.org upstream who needs a more permissive license (GPL2, MIT/ X11, BSD).
> Is that possible that patches against regular xorg sources trees could follow 
> GPL2-only licence ?
> 
This is not something that I have investigated yey with regard to how it
affects NX.  However, in general GPL is "one way".  That is, you can
aggregate more permissively licensed TO something with the GPL.
However, you cannot incorporate GPL licensed code to something going the
other direction.  For example, if someone develops a filesystem for
under a BSD-type license, then it can be copied directly into Linux (all
other things being equal).  However, if a filesystem is developed under
the GPL, then it must be reimplemented if you want it under a BSD-type
license.

I hope that sort of makes sense.

Regards,

-Roberto

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