[M3devel] License compatibility

[Hendrik Boom]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 08:45:17PM -0400, Antony Hosking wrote:
> Not compatible.  FSF official. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone

So this presumably means it is impossible to distribute binary for any
Modula 3 program that uses a GPL library even if you include source code.
Because presumably the basic M3 run-time system is under the M3 license and therefore incompatible.

Which means it's practically impossible to provide such a program to anyone
that doesn't understand how to use a compiler, which is most Windows users.

Or is there some wiggle room somewhere?

-- hendrik

> 
> On Jun 30, 2012, at 20:39, Hendrik Boom <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've heard, ages ago, that the SRC was not considered compatible with 
> > the GPL.  I'd really like to know if this is true.  Not whether it 
> > should be compatible, not whether people were afraid of it being 
> > incompatible... not whether some people think it's cmopatible, but 
> > whether it *is* compatible.
> > 
> > Has anyone ever got a definitive answer to this question?
> > 
> > If not, should I ask the FSF explicitly?
> > 
> > -- hendrik
> >