RE: Linus about GPL x BSD(long)

At 01:34 AM 7/19/02 -0500, Ender wrote:
> > That is not really, true. Nobody can put another license on somebody
> > elses code GPL or not.
>
>
>*whistles to himself and pokes at the WineX license curiously, glancing
>over at poor little X11 sitting in the corner crying to himself*
>
>Well, if that's true in theory, it certainly doesn't seem to apply in
>practice :)

It applies in practice.
You still can get all the X11 licensed code you want. But, WineX has 
additional code. This code is licensed under a more restrictive license. 
The same happened to WINE now. You will always be able to retrieve the X11 
licensed code as such, and that is what the ReWind fork did. You can also 
start your own X11 fork anytime. But a lot of additional code is LGPL by 
now. So if you get the whole package, which includes the LGPL code, you 
might as well for practical purposes consider everything as being licensed 
under the LGPL, because that is the more restrictive license of both and 
because a lot of the X11 code has already been patched(or will be over 
time) with LGPL code.
In this sense X11 is one-way compatible with the xGPL, because you can 
always take X11 code and insert it into any xGPL project, but not the other 
way round.

Roland