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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes
From:       martin f krafft <madduck () debian ! org>
Date:       2006-05-11 18:45:13
Message-ID: 20060511184513.GB13914 () lapse ! madduck ! net
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also sprach Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> [2006.05.11.1702 +0200]:
> > That will make it pretty useless for non-GPL applications. 
> 
> Non-GPL compatible applications, you mean?

Yeah well. IMHO that pretty much excludes all sensible licences.

> > Why don't you choose (if possible) a less "viral" licence?
> 
> Wow.  First off, Kari does not appear to be upstream, so who are
> you addressing?

Him. I think he's in the better position to talk to upstream about
it. Or in fact not make the package.

> Seconds, since when do we consider the GPL to be viral?

I have always done so and never used the GPL for any of my work.

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