Alan Mackenzie wrote:
The scenario permeating this thread is of somebody enhancing a copyright program, the GCC, with his enhancements which don't conform to the GCC's license in a separate binary file, then DISTRIBUTING the whole.
That's not the scenario I'm talking about. I am talking only about distributing the separate piece, not combined or even on the same medium with the program with which it will interact. I agree that shipping the combined work statically linked, or possibly even shipping the new program and the existing one together on the same distribution medium (when not part of a large collection), would be considered a collective work, and then the GPL requirements would affect the new work. But distributing the new work alone, not in combination with the work with which it is meant to interact, incurs no copyright requirements from the other work. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
