Hyman Rosen <[email protected]> writes: > On 2/2/2010 4:00 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> Well, that is heresy. Official position is that dynamic linking >> creates a derivative work. Hence the OpenSSL problem. > > The FSF does not get to decide what copyright law includes.
The FSF gets to decide when to sue somebody over an assumed breach of their copyright. > Their official position might matter to help interpret what the GPL > means, but it cannot affect whether it applies. The GPL is a license. It is the sole privilege of the licensor to set the rules when the license applies. It is not the privilege of the licensor to set the rules when _copyright_ applies. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
