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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:33:18PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > allow other people to use and modify it. You can't have it both ways -- 
> > there's no such thing as 'GPL but with a few extra restrictions I've added to 
> > the code that everyone's contributed to'.
> 
> Nor is there "GPL with a few things ignored". 

Sure there is.  I don't think the kernel's under one, though.  They're
all over the place:  For instance, the libgcc license is "GPL except
anything can use it if compiled with GCC".  Various SSL-using programs
are distributed under "GPL but you can link it to OpenSSL anyway".

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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