On 7/28/05, Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only good answer people in d-l gave me to the question: > "why is the assumption that such linking is a violation of the > GPL valid?" is "because Eben Moglen said so in the GPL > FAQ, and he is a law teacher, so it must be true".
If you think that, you haven't been paying attention. The issue is: is a dynamically linked program a creative work? And, factually, you can't make a dynamically linked program without first designing it so that it works (and, in the typical case, spending a fair amount of time polishing it -- debugging, cleaning up the interfaces, etc.) Since this is a factual issue, its resolution is going to require consideration of the facts of the case, and could also require expert testimony about how the particular program in question is normally handled. In other words, you can't generalize from how game cartridges and laser printer cartridges are handled to some blanket rule which covers all cases of dynamic linking. (For instance.) -- Raul
