Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs

[telford]

Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org> wrote:

> You're including them into your work. The only proof of otherwise, is
> removing that #include and see if it all works as expected.

Why is this the only proof?
Does any case law support the use of such a test?

I would have thought that looking at the 5Cmaterial being distributed and
searching for copied elements would be a more common test.

Anyhow, I might write my own header file that happens to be compatible
(which is what the cygwin/mingwin developers did with the win32 API).

        - Tel