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Re: GNUstep


From: David Chisnall
Subject: Re: GNUstep
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:24:42 +0100

Amr,

Please read emails before replying half a dozen times.  I said:

> There may be some code in Chameleon that is useful, but I'm not certain, and 
> the FSF's copyright assignment requirement would be problematic if we did 
> incorporate any.


You somehow interpreted this as 'GNUstep is GPL'd and therefore can't 
incorporate Chameleon code'.  GNUstep is not GPL'd, and even if it were there 
is no problem incorporating permissively licensed code in a restrictively 
licensed project - that's the point of permissive licenses.  

The problem is that GNUstep is part of the GNU project, and requires copyright 
assignment.

That said, there's really no point in incorporating Chameleon into GNUstep.  If 
it provides a working implementation of UIKit on top of our AppKit 
implementation, then you are free to use both projects without the need for 
either to subsume the other.

David

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