> > If I use libc, I don't think I am creating a libc. Unless I am, I'm not > > deriving, I think. If I use libc, I simply use the services. Hence, libc > > is "a section of" the thing I am making, and does not derive from it. > > Your program derives from libc by being linked with it. This is precisely > why an LGPL has to exist.
So this isn't "derivative" in the sense of the OOP idiom "IS-A"... and you're saying that all I have to do to "derive from" something, is to include it unmodified or modified? -Jim
