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Re: Licensing question about the BSD
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Isaac |
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Re: Licensing question about the BSD |
Date: |
Fri, 05 Aug 2005 22:00:03 -0500 |
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On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:57:00 +0200, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
>
>> Bruce Lewis wrote:
>> [...]
>>> GPL'ed code. Your application's dependence on the GPLed code is very
>>> likely to make it a derivative work.
>>
>> "Various claims made by the FSF, conflating engineering dependencies
>> with copyright infringement, are not correct as a matter of law and
>> do not form part of the agreement accepted by a licensee when
>> exercising the license granted in the GPL. Therefore,
>> notwithstanding the drafters' intentions, the GPL text as written
>> does not compel the release of source code for independently
>> authored software components that use (or are used by) GPL programs
>> through any of the usual mechanisms employed elsewhere in the
>> software industry. GPL "enforcement" actions that proceed on this
>> basis, including those against NeXT and MCC which resulted in the
>> assignment to the FSF of copyright to the Objective C and C++ front
>> ends to GCC, operate under false pretenses."
>>
>> -- Michael K. Edwards, Will the Real GNU GPL Please Stand Up?,
>> unpublished draft 10th June 2005.
>
> Too bad that the courts and the legal departments of companies like
Which court decisions are in disagreement with Mr. Edward's position?
Isaac
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, (continued)
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Isaac, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/16
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Isaac, 2005/08/17
- derivative works (was: Licensing question about the BSD), Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/18
- Re: derivative works (was: Licensing question about the BSD), Isaac, 2005/08/18
- Re: derivative works (was: Licensing question about the BSD), Bruce Lewis, 2005/08/19
- Re: derivative works (was: Licensing question about the BSD), Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/19
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/19
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, David Kastrup, 2005/08/05
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD,
Isaac <=
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, David Kastrup, 2005/08/06
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Isaac, 2005/08/06
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/06
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/06
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, David Kastrup, 2005/08/07
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/08
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, David Kastrup, 2005/08/08
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/08
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, David Kastrup, 2005/08/08
- Re: Licensing question about the BSD, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/08/08