[Zope-dev] Re: ZPL and GPL licensing issues

[Simon Michael]

"Morten W. Petersen" <morten@thingamy.net> writes:
> """ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:43:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Richard Stallman
<snip>
> If the latter, then in general, you can't take someone's GPL-covered
> code and combine it with Zope, because the Zope license is
> GPL-incompatible.
>  
> If someone wrote a GPL-covered program specifically for Zope, you
> are pretty safe taking that as implicit permission to combine it
> with Zope.  But it would be better for them to give explicit
> permission.

Now here, I have to assume RMS is using "combine" above to mean
"combine and redistribute".

I hope I'm right ? If "combine" included "install zwiki on your zope
installation and use it" then everything I know is wrong..  I did
intend for that to be fairly danger-free.

-Simon