[Fedora-legal-list] Fwd: Re: [Scratch] scratch gpl licensing -- combining with apache, and gpl v3

Tom Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Nov 7 18:02:44 UTC 2012


On 11/07/2012 11:00 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> That original Squeak image is a mix of MIT and Apache 2.0 license. My
> concern is whether the final, combined image must be under the GPL v2
> license. My non-lawyer understanding is that it must, because it's certainly
> not a case of "mere aggregation". But upstream's explanation is that it's
> okay.

If the case is just one where the Scratch binary depends on the Squeak
VM to run, but they are separate code bases, there should be no issue.
Is that the situation?

~tom

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