Re: [TCLCORE] GPL Licence in TCLLib added

[Poor Y. <org...@po...>]

On 2024-11-06 14:28, msc...@po... wrote:
> Am 06.11.2024 12:08 schrieb Poor Yorick:
>> 
>> "Contagious" is a mischaracterization.  A project chooses derive its 
>> work from
>> a GPL-licensed work or not.  It doesn't involuntarily "get infected".
>> filtergen.tcl is licensed under the GPL, and if it disappears from 
>> Tcllib,
>> where will it be placed?  Some other GPL analogue of Tcllib?  The 
>> point of
>> Tcllib is to make it easier for projects to get their hands on 
>> software they
>> want to use.  Why not then just have branch in Tcllib for such things? 
>>  Or even
>> better just make the license clear and let projects choose for 
>> themselves what
>> works from Tcllib they will use?
> 
> It is indeed contagious in a certain way.
> 
> Tcllib gets distributed by various groups. Linux distros, commercial 
> programs etc.
> By including a (A)GPL licensed module, you suddenly make distribution 
> of the whole
> tcllib much much harder (or impossible) for lots of organisations, even 
> for unused modules,
> as GPL talks about distribution mostly.
> Thats contagious.
> 

A work that included Tcllib wholesale, but did not then itself use any 
GPL
licensed code from Tcllib, would not be de-facto in breach of the GPL.  
The
only way the work would be considered derivative is if it depended 
functionally
on code licensed under the GPL.

-- 
Yorick