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From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
Organization:	INTI
To:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Mon, 25 Aug 1997 16:02:32 +0000
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: GPLing Allegro-based progs?

Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> Nathan Thompson writes:
> >I have no trouble distributing only /my/ source code and letting the
> >user download the Allegro library seperately if she wants to
> >recompile, but I'd like to distribute the binary under the GNU Public
> >License.  I wonder whether your (Shawn's) Allegro copyright policy
> >permits this?
> 
> Absolutely. As far as I'm concerned, you are welcome to distribute a
> copy of the Allegro sources and put those under the GPL as well if you
> want, although I can't think what the point would be! I'm not interested
> in restricting what you can do with it, because I think in the long run
> a restrictive licence ends up limiting the creator as much as any of the
> users...

I guess you are right Shawn, but I'm not sure. GPL IS restrictive and if you 
interpret the things in the license in a special way (I don't know if is the 
right interpretation) your distribution policy can make collitions if somebody 
distributes Allegro as part of a GPL package.
Perhaps I'm paranoic, but I saw it when Robert started to distribute the editor 
with RHIDE. As you can check I'm allowing that but I'm not sure about 
collitions between my distribution policy and GPL.
Read the GPL license carefully.

SET

To the list:
P.S. I'M NOT SAYING GPL is BAD DON'T REPLY defending GPL. I'm saying that IS 
RESTRICTIVE.
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