Re: GPL traitor !

2009-06-14 Thread Hyman Rosen
David Combs wrote: JEDIDIAH j...@nomad.mishnet wrote: There is no difference between static and dynamic linking. Well, legally (but no lawyer me!) one could maybe infer a difference in INTENT? There is no need to worry about intent. There is a simple difference between static and dynamic

Re: GPL traitor ! OT?: can my program say GO RUN some-fsf-program?

2009-06-14 Thread Hyman Rosen
David Combs wrote: Following what's left of this humongous thread, I add this question: Suppose I have a non-free program, and instead of linking one way or another or even directly running a fsf program, I type out: To do the required next step, please run the gnu program xyz. Here's how:

Re: GPL traitor !

2009-06-14 Thread David Kastrup
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com writes: David Combs wrote: JEDIDIAH j...@nomad.mishnet wrote: There is no difference between static and dynamic linking. Well, legally (but no lawyer me!) one could maybe infer a difference in INTENT? There is no need to worry about intent. There is a simple

Re: GPL traitor ! OT?: can my program say GO RUN some-fsf-program?

2009-06-14 Thread Andrew Halliwell
David Combs dkco...@panix.com wrote: after which my program then reads in xyz.out and uses those xyz-produced results. How does THAT fly? If it's a seperate program who's only purpose is to subprocess some data before passing it on to another program and it's not linked in any way to any

Re: GPL traitor ! OT?: can my program say GO RUN some-fsf-program?

2009-06-14 Thread amicus_curious
Hyman Rosen hyro...@mail.com wrote in message news:j70zl.1773$f43.1...@newsfe03.iad... Copyright law involves copying. Ask yourself whether any protected work is being copied in violation of the copyright holder's terms. If there is no such copying, then copyright law does not prohibit the