Hi all, Thanks for the replies. Merijn wrote: > If you do borrow creative parts of someone else's work, > you either infringe their copyright or you need to comply > with their license. In case of the GPL, that means your > derivative (if published) has to be GPL as well.
In effect, GPLed software is more inaccessible for study and inspection than shareware? By fear of contamination. There is no such thing `contamination' when it comes to copyright, either you have agreed or not. Contamination is a FUDword. The GPL does not put any restrictions on study and inspection. Shareware is on the other hand non-free software, which you cannot study or inspect even if you wanted to, since the license is subjugates your right to do so. Copyright infringment does not occur when you simply study something, nor does it depend on any specific license like the GNU GPL. If you copy something from a non-free program, then this is copyright infrigment, since you are not allowed to do so. The GPL does not put any such restrictions on your rights. Several leading Linux distros have GUI similar to M$ Windows so that the end user feels at home when switching over. When you speak of the operating system that is basically the GNU system with Linux added, would you please call it "GNU/Linux"? If you call it just "Linux", you're giving the principal developers none of the credit. See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html for more explanation about this. Happy hacking. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
