On Apr 2, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/02/2013 11:38 PM, Anthonys Lists wrote: >> On 02/04/2013 22:01, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: >>> (Function names and APIs are generally considered to be uncopyrightable.) >>> However, I think the consensus of opinion about free software licensing >>> would >>> be that, in distributing to you this little program, purely in source code >>> form, not compiled or linked in any way, I am still obliged to offer it to >>> you >>> under licensing terms that are GPL-compatible, or else lose my right to use >>> the GNU Scientific Library. >> >> You've just answered your own question. You have just said that this program >> does NOT contain ANY copyrighted content from the gsl. >> >> As such, it is not a derivative work. That's what the law says. If the gsl >> people want to stop you using their library, they need the law on their side. > > My right to use the GNU Scientific Library is conditional on following certain > obligations -- if I breach those obligations, I lose the right to use the GNU > Scientific Library. One such obligation relates to the licensing that must be > applied if I distribute any work that matches the GPL definition of a "covered > work". This would be overreaching and probably unenforceable from the legal perspective. > It's no different in principle from what happens if I breach the terms of use > of > a proprietary program. My right to use the Flash plugin, for example, is > conditional among other things upon my not trying to reverse-engineer it. > > Of course, in the case of the GNU Scientific Library, one way I could avoid > violating the license would be to prepare a clean-room re-implementation of > the > library for use with my program. But in the absence of such a > re-implementation, I think I'd reasonably be held in violation. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
