Re: GTK Netscape is impossible

[Gregor Hoffleit <flight thefly mathi uni-heidelberg de>]

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).

Even if GTK was licensed under the GPL (not LGPL): It's completely fine to mix GPL and non-GPL code, as long as the license of the other code is `compatible' with the GPL, i.e. the license has to grant enough rights to fulfill the conditions of the GPL (availability of the source, right to modify etc.). The NPL has been designed to grant you these rights. Look at http://www.opensource.org. There's probably the press release by Bruce Perens from the Debian project in which he comments on the NPL draft. Specifically it states that the NPL is compliant to the Debian Free Software Guidelines; in short you could say that any software that is DFSG compliant can be mixed with GPL code.

	Gregor