Hey schizophrenic de Weerd, I think that you've been convinced at some point that linking doesn't create software derivative works under copyright except in the GNU Republic (i.e. under Stallman's copyleft*** not copyright, that is). Go take some medicine to end the crisis.
***) As GNU Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda nicely put it: ----- 2) Clarifying the GPL by sterno One issue that I know has come up for me is how the GPL applies in situations where I'm using GPL software but I'm not actually modifying it. For example, I write a Java application, and it is reliant on a JAR that is GPL'd. Do I then need to GPL my software? I haven't changed the JAR in anyway, I'm just redistributing it with my software. The end user could just as easily download the JAR themselves, it's just a convenience for me to offer it in my package. Eben: 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. ----- regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
