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Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs
From: |
Rui Miguel Seabra |
Subject: |
Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Jul 2004 22:01:18 +0100 |
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 22:36 +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> <quote>
>
> 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.
>
> </quote>
>
> Now, do you seriously believe that they will be able to convince
> a non-drunken district judge (appellate and supreme folk aside
> for a moment) that "works that use the library" are in fact
> derivative works under copyright law?
It appears all cases involving the GPL so far have settled out of
court... except for that court order _in favour_, on one of the recent
netfilter cases, I wonder why...
Rui
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- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/09
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Martin Dickopp, 2004/07/09
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/07/09
- Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs, Martin Dickopp, 2004/07/09
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