Good evening, Hadron! In gnu.misc.discuss Hadron <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> writes:
>> In gnu.misc.discuss Hyman Rosen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> You appear to believe that modifying the source of a GPLed program >>> so that it invokes a function which is provided separately under a >>> non-GPL license violates the GPL even when the modified program is >>> distributed *as source*. Is that true? >> No. If the invoked function is truly separate (e.g., calling an emailing >> library function from GCC), it needn't be GPL'd. If the invoked >> function is essentially a part of the calling program, it must also be >> GPL. > "essentially" : non definite. Yes. Easy to understand, though, particularly with the illustrative example. >> This is covered by section 2 of GPL2 ("... and can be reasonably >> considered independent and separate works in themselves ...") and > "reasonably" : non definite. Yes. Also easy to understand, at least for people experienced in software development. >> Copyright licenses for software do however deal with functionality. >> Copyright law also has the notion of "derived works". > Where were we on your assertions that the GPL is "easy" for anyone to > understand? :-) I suppose I asked for that. OK, it's not easy for everybody to understand. It's easy to understand for intelligent people who want to understand it. > With all due respect Alan, your claims are looking more and more > ridiculous. And each post you make reinforces just how incorrect and > living in la-la land you were when you made those claims. And now you've descended to ad hominem abuse. Fair enough, you don't want to understand the GPL, and I can't make you, not that I'd want to. But I'll ask you again. What's your interest in this matter? What's your stake in the GPL? You seem to care about it a great deal. Or are you just a totally disinterested outsider who, somehow, finds this discussion intellectually stimulating? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
