Couple points...

Couple points...

Posted Feb 26, 2004 7:19 UTC (Thu) by akumria (subscriber, #7773)
In reply to: Couple points... by yodermk
Parent article: X11: Where do we go from here?

> Have a license that is a cross between the GPL and the LGPL.

There are plenty of projects that have 'exception' clauses to allow linking with problematically licensed libraries & such.

Quite a lot of KDE programs used to have say "This program is GPL and additionally you can link this program to libraries under the QPL".

However "anality of license conflicts" is actually a good thing. It'll encourage more people to think carefully about their licences. You very rarely see people complain about modified-BSD, GPL and LGPL.

But almost everyone who thinks up a new licence (newX11, MPL, etc.) seems to decide that being incompatible with the vast bulk of existing software is a good thing.

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