Re: Releasing an Oracle PL/SQL Web Toolkit application under the GPL

In article <ud758olz7.fsf_at_verizon.net>, Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com> wrote:
>On 02 Sep 2001, seebs_at_plethora.net wrote:
>> It doesn't, however, put the code "into the public domain" -
>> that would mean that anyone could use it, for any reason, with
>> no restrictions.

>I believe the only "restriction" there is, is that one cannot
>take GPL'd code, extend it, lay claim to the new code as your
>own, package it as your own, and then sell it, which would
>therefore restrict that version of the software for any further
>enhancements by future users.

Nor can you merge it with code under many of the other licenses out there.

[Quoted] For instance, imagine a license similar to the GPL, but in which the Preamble to the GPL has been replaced with something else; let's call it the HPL. The HPL requires, just as the GPL does, that code licensed under it be distributed with it. Since the HPL is requiring you to distribute code with a thing which is not required when you distribute GPL'd code, it is "more restrictive", so you may not distribute GPL'd and HPL'd code together without some kind of relicensing.

You are also forbidden from placing anything based on GPL'd work in the public domain. This means you can't really give it away.

-s

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