Brian Kimball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > The GPL already tells you. It's appealing to the "reasonable man" > > test. > > So even if a work distributed with the modified Program is not a > derivative work of the Program, it must be GPLed if the work DEPENDs on > the Program to run (a situation I tried but failed to create in my > example)? I'm a reasonable guy and that's how I read it. :-)
It depends on what kind of dependency is involved. Is it so tight a coupling that they are one program, who parts are useful only when tied together? Or not? It's human-level distinction, not a techincal one. Thomas
