---- START NEW MESSAGE --- Received: from cherry.ease.lsoft.com [209.119.0.109] by dpmail10.doteasy.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A9EC22650070; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 04:24:12 -0800 Received: from PEAR.EASE.LSOFT.COM (209.119.0.19) by cherry.ease.lsoft.com (LSMTP for Digital Unix v1.1b) with SMTP id <5.00CC0C42@cherry.ease.lsoft.com>; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 7:24:03 -0500 Received: from MITVMA.MIT.EDU by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8e) with spool id 7227 for PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:23:55 -0500 Received: from MITVMA (NJE origin SMTP@MITVMA) by MITVMA.MIT.EDU (LMail V1.2d/1.8d) with BSMTP id 8395; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:23:20 -0500 Received: from smtp-out1.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.11] by mitvma.mit.edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 430) via TCP with ESMTP ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:23:19 EST X-Comment: mitvma.mit.edu: Mail was sent by smtp-out1.xs4all.nl Received: from PAARD (a213-84-20-53.adsl.xs4all.nl [213.84.20.53]) by smtp-out1.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0SCNLMO060050 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:23:22 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Message-ID: <000901c3e599$8527f050$0b00a8c0@PAARD> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:23:19 +0100 Reply-To: pic microcontroller discussion list Sender: pic microcontroller discussion list From: Wouter van Ooijen Organization: Van Ooijen Technische Informatica Subject: Re: [OT]: JAL licensing (was SCO lobbying Congress about Linux) To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: <001801c3e594$b8cdc740$0b00a8c0@PAARD> Precedence: list X-RCPT-TO: Status: U X-UIDL: 371856084 > Have you considered what they do for GNU bison? Thinking: I could apply GPL, and then add a line like "In addition to the GPL license granted as above an unlimited license is granted to use the result obtained by compiling this file (maybe in combination with other files) into an executable format (.hex file or equivalent)." Now a remaining problem is: what whould prevent a person from enhancing the library, removing that scentence from the library text, and distributing the result? In other words: the GPL is carefully worded to be 'sticky'. Such a simple scentence is not. IMHO the same problem applies to the Bison case. Wouter van Ooijen -- ------------------------------------------- Van Ooijen Technische Informatica: www.voti.nl consultancy, development, PICmicro products -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics .