GPL'd client (was: Re: GUI clients status)

[Greg Stein <gs...@lyra.org>]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 07:54:31PM +0200, Martijn Boekhorst wrote:
>...
> >> Seen TortoiseCVS, was also discussed here, looks good.
> >
> > Well, I think that then it's time to start digging up a bit more,
> > and collect some more information, so I could start this one.
> > Let's see how far I will go :)
> 
> Well, I think the risk is that it's GPL. Not sure how that works in a
> subversion environment. (Could we have a GUI client that's GPL'ed?
> 'licensally' speaking?

Absolutely. Subversion uses an Apache license, with the appropriate
substitutions. While the FSF thinks clause 5 is an "additional restriction"
and thus uncombinable with the GPL, the ASF (and myself) think they're full
of crap.

However, if you're the one applying a license, and you want to believe the
FSF in this matter, you can easily say "it is GPL'd and clause 5 of the SVN
license is fine." i.e. you can simply state the combination is fine.

[ and all that said: the SVN (Apache-style) license is *very* lenient; it is
  essentially just a BSD license ]

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/

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