Bruce Lewis wrote:
[...]
> GPL'ed code. Your application's dependence on the GPLed code is very
> likely to make it a derivative work.
"Various claims made by the FSF, conflating engineering dependencies
with copyright infringement, are not correct as a matter of law and
do not form part of the agreement accepted by a licensee when
exercising the license granted in the GPL. Therefore,
notwithstanding the drafters' intentions, the GPL text as written
does not compel the release of source code for independently
authored software components that use (or are used by) GPL programs
through any of the usual mechanisms employed elsewhere in the
software industry. GPL "enforcement" actions that proceed on this
basis, including those against NeXT and MCC which resulted in the
assignment to the FSF of copyright to the Objective C and C++ front
ends to GCC, operate under false pretenses."
-- Michael K. Edwards, Will the Real GNU GPL Please Stand Up?,
unpublished draft 10th June 2005.
regards,
alexander.
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