Questions / Concepts GPL. Was: Re: GPL License with clause for Web use?

Ciaran O'Riordan ciaran at fsfe.org
Thu Nov 22 13:52:18 UTC 2007


Alex Hudson <home at alexhudson.com> writes:
>> Apache licence compatibility was achieved by allowing people to add the
>> requirements of Apached licensed code to GPLv3 licensed code.
>
> Are you sure about that?

I'm certainly not an expert on this issue, but it looks like sections 4c and
4d of the AL have attribution requirements that aren't in GPLv3 and which
make compatibility thus rely on the "additional requirements" provision of
GPLv3's section 7b.  No?


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