Dear List, I have been thinking about derived works, and licensing, about liberation of modules from non-free dependencies. I had posed this question before, but not very well worded, so here is my second try.
When does a free software lose the rights to the function calls to non-free software? Is it possible that just by calling functions from another software that you become non-free? If you had a test routine that would call every single function of a non free software, exercize it's public interface totally, would that not be a copy of the interface? If you were to extract the structure of the non-free-software from the compilers representation of that non-free interface, and generate a set of "stubs", would that not just be a header file? When is a header file under copyright? Please advise, mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
