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Re: license question with non-GPL library
From: |
Alexander Terekhov |
Subject: |
Re: license question with non-GPL library |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:36:50 +0200 |
Merijn de Weerd wrote:
[... CONTAINS ***OR*** is DERIVED ...]
Hey Merijn, drop an email to Professor Determann.
http://www.usfca.edu/law/determann/softwarecombinations060403.pdf
he must be missing the true meaning of "contains" (vs "mere
aggregate"). Same as the GPL author himself, by the way.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/05/01/1052216&mode=nocomment
"RMS: We have no say in what is considered a derivative work. That
is a matter of copyright law, decided by courts. When copyright
law holds that a certain thing is not a derivative of our work,
then our license for that work does not apply to it. Whatever our
licenses say, they are operative only for works that are
derivative of our code.
A license can say that we will treat a certain kind of work as if
it were not derivative, even if the courts think it is. The Lesser
GPL does this in certain cases, in effect declining to use some
of the power that the courts would give us. But we cannot tell the
courts to treat a certain kind of work as if it were derivative,
if the courts think it is not."
regards,
alexander.
- Re: license question with non-GPL library, (continued)
- Re: license question with non-GPL library, Merijn de Weerd, 2006/08/16
- Re: license question with non-GPL library, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/08/16
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- Re: license question with non-GPL library, David Kastrup, 2006/08/16
- Re: license question with non-GPL library, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/08/16
- Re: license question with non-GPL library, David Kastrup, 2006/08/16
- Re: license question with non-GPL library, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/08/16
- Re: license question with non-GPL library, Merijn de Weerd, 2006/08/16
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Re: license question with non-GPL library, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2006/08/16
Re: license question with non-GPL library, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/08/16
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