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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful
From:       Frank_Küster <frank () debian ! org>
Date:       2006-05-12 11:25:57
Message-ID: 86wtcrzdq2.fsf () alhambra ! kuesterei ! ch
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Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:35:35PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> wrote:
>> > Seconds, since when do we consider the GPL to be viral?
>> 
>> Don't know about you, but the FSF does - it has created the LGPL because
>> of this.
>
> Actually, they don't. 

I don't know whether this discussion is good for anything, I think we
are just misunderstanding each other.  Maybe we should just stop - You
are arguing that the GPL is a good license for a library, but I'm not
arguing against it.  I'm only saying that it's "viral", but  that's just
a consequence of the idea of copyleft in my view, and it's intended and
just what you want when you choose GPL.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)


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