"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.



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