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On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:46:39PM +0100, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> > I'm not sure I completely understand your goals for a license
> > so permit
> > me this one question - what prevents you from using a BSD type license
> > for the libraries, while keeping the compiler itself under GPL?
>
> I don't want anyone to charge for a modified library. I think the BSD
> does not prevent that.

Nor does the GPL, although it does mean that anyone who buys the
modified library can redistribute it as much as they like.

Chris

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