At 9:20 PM -0500 on 3/29/00, Mark Rauterkus wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>We are talking about LINKING. I'm confused. And, I'm sorta going to lean to
>derobert's views.
I'm confused to. We're treading new territory, and no one knows. AFAIK,
no open-source license has ever had a day in court; relativly few
commercial ones have; and no one's ever created the mix of the
GPL-open-source and propriety software like we're trying to.
We do have a few things to argue:
1) Is a work that absolutely requires another, and is built and used
only with another, a derivative work?
2) If not, does it become a derivative work if it must use code from
that other project?
FreeCard stacks absolutely require FreeCard, are built with FreeCard,
are used only with FreeCard, and require code from FreeCard to run. A
good argument could be made both ways. Standalones are placed in a file
with FreeCard.
