On 21 Jun 2001, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
if your product derives from GUM or uses internal interfaces, no, you can't. if your product uses only well the defined external api or access gum through zope, then, imho, yes.
Ok, that's good. Then it means we can potentially use GPL Zope Python Products with non-copyleft ones.
good question. imho, licensing a zope product under gpl is a non-sense because you won't be able to use it (usually products inherit on zope classes) and respect the gpl at the same time. that's why i always release under a double license. i really hope dc will release zope under a gpl compatible license soon or later.
Because if you have a gpl-compatible license you dont have to relicense to redistribute, right?
yes. terrible, terrible problem. but, please don't see that as a "license war". different people like different licenses for different reasons and that's Right (TM). this "war" is just all of us trying to cooperate to put free software to a better use.
Amen to that :-)