Stefaan A Eeckels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The answers in the GPL FAQ are the opinion of the FSF's > legal counsel (hopefully).
Right. Which is an indicator that they have analysed the matters in depth, and that they have the competence to do so. > The OS is equally "required to make the program work", but I'm sure > you can see that claiming that thence every program is a derivative > work of the OS is not going to be very productive for Free Software > authors (and users). Using standard Unix/POSIX system calls is not considered a derivative work. > The law should not be the only yardstick for our behaviour, something > we, as a society, tend to forget too often nowadays. Well spoken. I couldn't agree more. -- Henrik S. Hansen http://freecode.dk/~hsh/ Computer science (software engineering) student Free Software Foundation member #1702 (http://member.fsf.org) _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
