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A comment on Ask HN: Have licenses ever stopped you from combining two FOSS programs?.

Re:Ask HN: Have licenses ever stopped you from combining two... by psacawa on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:06PM (#34778535)
It happens all the time for software that is copyleft-licensed in projects that are unwilling to also adopt a copyleft license. For example, it blocks linking the node interpreter to libreadline [0]. On the other hand, cpython is also permissively licensed, yet it does link to the same library, so who knows what the legality of linking against a GPL lib really is.

[0] https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5608

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Re:Ask HN: Have licenses ever stopped you from combining two... by josephcsible on Monday February 13, 2023 @02:26PM (#34778885)
This isn't quite the kind of conflict I meant, since the licenses are compatible and the maintainer just doesn't want to do it.
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