[M3devel] Fwd: Could you post this for me on m3devel

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:36:46PM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> 
> Object: A more precise question about M3 licensing
> 
> From what I gathered so far on this thread, the SRC licence was quite a bit
> more liberal than the FSF license, which led to this "separate process"
> business for the code generation phase, which displeased the FSF somewhat.
> ;-)

As far as I know, the problem is that the SRC licence was restrictive at 
one point that conflicted with the FSF licence.  In particular, you 
had to grant SRC the ability to do anything whatsoever with anything you 
added or modified in the system.  That is a restriction on how you can 
redistribute -- a restriction more severe than the FSF licence allows..

But there's nothing preventing any of us from releasing your own code 
under multiple licences, including the FSF one.

Even if you link directly to FSF code and distribute binaries, and 
aggregate your source with FSF code more intimately than "mere 
aggregation", nothing prevents you from licencing your code under as 
many different licences as you want in addition to the FSF one.

But without SRS's say-so, we can't do it to their code.

-- hendrik