Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: [...] [0]: Many projects, specially system parts of GNU, have special clauses or use the Lesser GPL to allow mixing with non-free software. Tell me how does that work. Say on hurd (which doesn't have Linus' exception to the GPL'd kernel). On what basis are all those

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 01:14:51 -0500 Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You wanna write an app for our OS? Ask our permission first. Thank you. If you license your code under a Free Software license, then you recived that permission[0]. The FSF doesn't care for people who wish to

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:59:23 +0100 David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tell me to respect the wishes of the author, and I'm all with you, even if these wishes seem - at first sight - rather

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread Martin Dickopp
Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I said earlier in this thread, it is _not_ a matter of law, but of morality. It is abundantly clear that the FSF considers any form of linking to a library as preparation of a derivative work, and as such, we all should simply honour the wishes

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread Alexander Terekhov
David Kastrup wrote: [...] Suppose the Earth consists of constaneously combusting pink cheese... Okay. And your question is? and _you_, of all people, call others stupid frequently. My questions were meant to highlight absurdity in your org's line of reasoning, genius.

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Dickopp wrote: [...] I have no idea what you're aiming at. I'm not surprised. Since it becomes subsequently clear that you have no idea what you are aiming at either, hardly a surprise. If the works of A and B are combined to form a

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread Martin Dickopp
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Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread David Kastrup
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: Geez. Visit a clinic. Are you this silly that you cannot even produce one message without having to resort to personal attacks? Yes, you're reading a mailing list. I'm reading and replying on newsgroup.

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:12:29 +0100 Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stefaan A Eeckels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:37:43 +0100 Martin Dickopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find it unconvincing to argue that a program is not a derivative work of a dynamic

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Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: [...] is not a derivative of the standard 'C' library, but that the copy that is created at run time in memory is a derivative work of both the source code and the standard 'C' library (or for Alex, a compilation, but that doesn't matter because the same protections

Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

2005-03-14 Thread Alexander Cline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can I ask all you guys a question? Can you keep the personal attacks off the mailinglist/newsgroup/whatever? The copyright debate is at least interesting, but I don't need my inbox clogged by this flame war crap. Thanks! This message