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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception" |
Date: | Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:48:15 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) |
Barry Margolin wrote:
I believe the choice of library to incorporate is an "original work of authorship". Linking a set of object files and libraries is analogous to creating an anthology in traditional literature.
You're never going to convince a court of that - the source which makes calls to the library is an original work of authorship but compilation is a purely mechanical act. The FSF is also talking about the runtime libraries which come with compiler, which no one makes a choice to use.
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