RE: Linus about GPL x BSD(long)

Brett Glass <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:16:26 -0600

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At 01:35 PM 7/19/2002, Francois Gouget wrote:

>Your analogy is flawed: it implies that no one can use the X11 code
>anymore which is incorrect.

Not true. When GPLed code is intertwined with MIT-licensed code, it
quickly becomes impossible to separate them. (Especially since any
programmer who looks at GPLed code is thereafter "tainted" and could
be accused of writing a derivative work if he wrotes something similar.)

--Brett Glass