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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: GPL 2(b) HUH? |
Date: | Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:26:45 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) |
Rahul Dhesi wrote:
I think a court trying to rule in an unsettled area of law might well pay attention to public policy considerations of the type that the CAFC addressed in the JMRI case, i.e., how best to allow authors of GPL software to achieve their goals within the letter and spirit of existing copyright law.
But that involved actual copying and distribution of software licensed under the Artistic License. You'll have a much tougher time convincing a court that dynamic linking is anything like that. Copyright is what it is, not what you want it to be, unless what you want it to be is what it is.
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