On 2/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I hope i have it right this time...
In the GNU Republic you'll end up in jail. ---- One of the questions with the GPL is about how tightly you may link GPL code with non-GPL code, for example, when you compile a GPL program and it uses other code in a software library. Have you done anything to define how tightly GPL code may be linked with non-GPL code? Under what circumstances is that permitted and not permitted? ---- Bloby Eben: "We have made one clarification, as we see it, of what we believe was always the rule. We reasserted that code dynamically linked to GPL code--which the GPL code is intended to require, not merely optionally incorporate--is part of the source code of the work under the GPL and must be released." and (in another interview) "The language or programming paradigm in use doesn't determine the rules of compliance, nor does whether the GPL'd code has been modified. The situation is no different than the one where your code depends on static or dynamic linking of a GPL'd library, say GNU readline. Your code, in order to operate, must be combined with the GPL'd code, forming a new combined work, which under GPL section 2 (b) must be distributed under the terms of the GPL and only the GPL." IBM: (Tenth Defense) SCO's claims are barred by the doctrine of copyright misuse. s/SCO/FSF regards, alexander.