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[Stefan Rijnhart <stefan@xxxxxxxx>]

On 11/03/2012 03:20 AM, Raphael Valyi wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Stefan Rijnhart <stefan@xxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:stefan@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     On 11/02/2012 12:59 PM, Joël Grand-Guillaume wrote:
> >     [...]
>
>     Another issue is the license of the Banking Addons, which is GPL.
>     We need permission from the original author Pieter Kersten to
>     relicense as AGPL in order to allow a merge with the Bank
>     Statement addons.
>
>
>  Hello Stefan,
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, one is always free to take some GPL code and mix 
> it with a compatible but more restrictive license, such as the AGPL.

Hi Raphael,

thank you for pointing this out. As it turns out in this particular case 
there can be no doubt, as section 13 of GPL3([1]) explicitely mentions 
the possibility of merging with AGPL3 code provided that the result is 
published under AGPL3.

Cheers,
Stefan.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

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