Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: GPL

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, David Woolley wrote:

> > Then, as I suggested, you can certainly point to some industry discussion
> > of the problem which is not motivated by the GPL.
>
> That assumes the industry has a problem.  I think it is only you that
> believes that static linkiing doesn't create a derivative work.

I see.  The industry has no problem because (according to your line of 
argument), the implicit license agreement is well understood by everyone 
in the industry, and that it is only those discussing the GPL that have 
difficulty grasping this distinction.

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