Re: [ng-spice] new guy: licensing issues


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From Paolo Nenzi <pnenzi@ieee.ing.uniroma1.it>
Date Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:30:15 +0100 (CET)
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A followup,

In the GPL we read:
These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole. If identifiable
sections of that work are not derived from the Program, and can
be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves,
then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections
when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the
same sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the
Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this
License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire
whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it. 

How to make the "integration plug in" a separate piece ?


Anyway, if you are interested in a paper on GPL / LGPL, please look at 
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-not-lgpl.html

Paolo


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