[ENH] BDF fonts for squeak
Lex Spoon
lex at cc.gatech.edu
Mon Jan 24 05:46:50 UTC 2000
"Andrew C. Greenberg" <werdna at gate.net> wrote:
> Yet according to RMS, a GPL library can not be linked with a Squeak
> plugin, without rendering the entire image in which it is contained
> subject to GPL restrictions. Since the licenses are incompatible,
> the images would then be barred from distribution, and possibly from
> further use or modification by the person who merged them.
> Unsurprisingly, the same result would have obtained if all Apple
> fonts were excised from the image.
>
Incidentally, most GNU libraries are released under LGPL, not plain GPL.
LPGL has specific exceptions for linking. Richard Stallman hates
LGPL....
Also, Squeak's license is *somewhat* GPL-like in that if you modify the
core of Squeak, you are supposed to release those modifications.
Lex
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