Re: GTK Netscape is impossible

[<nuke bayside net>]

On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Edward Betts wrote:

> Since Netscape is released under the Netscape Public Licence (NPL) and not
> the GPL as GTK it breaks the GTK to port netscape to GTK. (No program can
> use bits of a GPL program without being released GPL).

that's very true, and i think it's an issue Netscape should take up with
the FSF. i doubt the Gtk people would ever change the license to LGPL, but
the FSF might make an exception in netscape's case.

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