On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Larry Masters wrote: > I have seen problems in other projects where someone creates an > program to work with another program but the source code is not > released because it is argued that the "new program" is not derived > from the other, which with my understanding of the GPL and US > copyright law this could be true that the "new program" is not > derived. > > Program X does this. > Program Y does something else, but will work with Program X.
My understanding is that ones license cannot restrict something that has not been derived from ones work. And for a good reason! Alex. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3