Re: A little GPL riddle (was: GPL as an evaluation license)

2011-04-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Aviad Mandel aviad.man...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Someone gave you, i.e., conveyed, distributed, that object code whose only purpose is to create the browser when linked to some GPLed code.

Re: A little GPL riddle (was: GPL as an evaluation license)

2011-04-11 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Aviad Mandel aviad.man...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Someone gave you, i.e., conveyed, distributed, that object code

Re: A little GPL riddle (was: GPL as an evaluation license)

2011-04-11 Thread Aviad Mandel
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.orgwrote: I hope it resolves your confusion. Unfortunately not. I am familiar with the relevant parts, and I agree that if you read them over and over again, you get kinda convinced that mixing GPL code with closed-source

Re: A little GPL riddle (was: GPL as an evaluation license)

2011-04-11 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011, Aviad Mandel wrote about A little GPL riddle (was: GPL as an evaluation license): And please, I know that the mixed binary is derived work and must be distributed further under the same license. But the thing is that nobody The key error here is the word must. It's

A little GPL riddle (was: GPL as an evaluation license)

2011-04-10 Thread Aviad Mandel
For the sake of fairness, I'll say that the questions I had about my own little venture are answered, thank you all. But for pure curiosity, I'm left wondering how effective GPL really is. Let's leave the microwave for a second, and think about a proprietary web software browser, for a desktop,

Re: A little GPL riddle (was: GPL as an evaluation license)

2011-04-10 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Aviad Mandel aviad.man...@gmail.com wrote: For the sake of fairness, I'll say that the questions I had about my own little venture are answered, thank you all. But for pure curiosity, I'm left wondering how effective GPL really is. Let's leave the microwave

Re: A little GPL riddle (was: GPL as an evaluation license)

2011-04-10 Thread Aviad Mandel
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Someone gave you, i.e., conveyed, distributed, that object code whose only purpose is to create the browser when linked to some GPLed code. Therefore this object code is derivative work of the GPL code. Therefore if

Re: A little GPL riddle (was: GPL as an evaluation license)

2011-04-10 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:33:05AM +0300, Aviad Mandel wrote: For the sake of fairness, I'll say that the questions I had about my own little venture are answered, thank you all. But for pure curiosity, I'm left wondering how effective GPL really is. Let's leave the microwave for a second,