[development] The OSI Artist License compatibility with GPL

Jeff Beeman doogieb at gmail.com
Sun Sep 9 22:04:08 UTC 2007


Very handy page.  The code I'd like to include looks like it's just
"Artistic License," not "Artistic License 2.0" - so I'll need to get in
touch with the authors.  Thanks very much for the reply and link.

Jeff

On 9/9/07, Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> Quoting Jeff Beeman <doogieb at gmail.com>:
>
> > Does anyone see any reason why something licensed with the OSI Artistic
> > License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php) can't
> be
> > distributed in a GPL'd Drupal module?
> >
> > After perusing the text of the license briefly, I'm not seeing anything
> that
> > would prevent it - but I may also need to read further in the recent
> > GPL-compatibility thread (which is ginormous, by the way!).
> >
>
> Look here http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/ for the answer.
>
> Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
> -- http://give-me-an-offer.com/
>
>
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