On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Nils Kassube wrote:
* Jim Penny <jpenny@universal-fasteners.com> [2001-06-20 19:12]:
As far as I can tell you are wrong, but there are certainly gray areas. The last time this came up I wrote such a scenario up and tried to get FSF clarification. Nothing ever came back.
I got a clarification from the FSF. It's in the mailing list archives at [...]
So, the outcome is that one cannot use GPL Zope Python Products and distribute the system. That sounds logical, since ZPL is not GPL compatible. What then, is to "distribute the system"? If I install GUM (GPL) on a clients Zope instance, have I distributed anything? Is it putting it on the same website, same tarball, under the same invoice of consultant services or what? Help. Can I raise I question without getting flamed (since the question isn't rethorical but a sincear one): was the "advertisement"-clauses in the ZPL meant to secure Zope's progress to become a big and respected piece of software? Has it not secured that now? My real question is: what good will the advertisement-clauses do us now? What harm would it do to remove them? (No, that last one isn't rethorical :-)