| For example, I'd submit that _reference_ is derivation where
software is
| concerned. If you call into my library from your program, it's a
derived
| work. However, copyright law doesn't take that into account and is only
| concerned with copying.
And therein lies a serious problem, because I think your assertion
is a load of hooey. Just becuase I have code that make calls to a
certain API, which you happen to have implemented, doesn't mean that
I'm deriving from your code.
I might write code against the POSIX foobar() API, and maybe
someone drops a GPL'ed implementation of libfoobar in place of the
dylib (with a free implementation) that I was using, doesn't make my
code derived.
And it doesn't matter who is right here; my point is we can't know.
-Fred
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Wilfredo Sanchez, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apple Computer, Inc., Core Operating Systems / BSD
Technical Lead, Darwin Project
1 Infinite Loop, 302-4K, Cupertino, CA 95014
