> -----Original Message----- > From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 8:52 AM > To: Roman > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Need consulting > Lblsa writes: > > We develope new commercial software, based on libvpopmail. > > Source codes is not changed by ours. Can we in this case > not > let others to see ours source code? > Also we > interested : (ISSUE!!!!) > How link type of our software > with this library (static, dynamic) > depende from that issue? > Russ Nelson answered: > You get different answers depending on who you ask. Our > (OSI's) lawyer has published an article in Linux Journal in > which he says that dynamic linking does not create a > derivative work. The Free Software Foundation says that even > dynamic linking creates a derivative work.
Your (OSI) lawyer makes his point much more clearly here: http://rosenlaw.com/html/GL18.pdf. /Larry Rosen -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3