On Fri, 19 October 2001, Angelo Schneider wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1) the GPL does not prohibit linking > Wy should it? > If it would prohibit linking a lot of work published under GPL would be > useless, e.g. all libraries.
ar, my bad, yet again. serves me right for trying to catch up on my email at 2 in the morning. how about: 1) (v1.1) The GPL makes no claims that linking other software is a derived work of the original source. The LGPL says this is the case. is this based on a court ruling, or a law that says as much? this is the best analogy I can think of: I copyright a JPEG. I assume fair use says users can translate the JPEG mumbo-jumbo into a two-dimensional array or RGB values (i.e. DERIVE). Can I impose a restriction on what you do with that 2-D array once you have it? i.e. I copyright source code under GPL. I'm assuming fair use says users can translate the source into usable machine instructions. Can I impose a restriction on what you can do with that machine level array once you have it? can I prevent you from displaying my translated JPEG adjacent to proprietary images? Greg -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
