Re: [License-discuss] GPL and proprietary WebAPIs

2011-12-25 Thread Clark C. Evans
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011, at 01:34 PM, Rick Moen wrote: You know, Clark: Speaking for myself, I have no interest in advising querents about how closely they can lawfully skirt the requirements of copyleft licences, or how they can creatively circumvent those requirements entirely, in order

Re: [License-discuss] GPL and proprietary WebAPIs

2011-12-25 Thread Clark C. Evans
Rick, My question is rather straight-forward. Does the GPLv3 permit the distribution of derived works that require an independent and non-free work for its operation [1]. I was under the impression that the Corresponding Source (all the source code needed to... run the object code) and 5c (the