On Friday 31 July 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
ahhh, licensing! Spot will likely have better thoughts on all of
this,
plus thoughts on the other license compatibility stuff. I don't think
MIT / BSD licensed stuff has any problem linking against GPL stuff
(unless it's under the _original_ BSD license, with the advertising
clause). Not sure about QPL or LPPL. Public Domain obviously has no
problems.
Depends on what one thinks is a problem and what not, but FWIW I definitely
consider it a problem. Due to GPL's viral nature, I'm fairly certain that the
end result of linking something licensed using the above is a combined work
which is either GPL'd, or a violation of the GPL or the original (MIT, BSD
etc) license.