Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

[Hyman Rosen]

On 3/29/2010 4:28 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> http://www.btlj.org/data/articles/21_04_04.pdf

This is a quote of one person's opinions, not of a
decided case, so it needs to be understood in that
light.

> "A licensor who contractually prohibited the combination of its
> software with other programs in situations where adaptation rights
> are not affected would exceed the scope of its copyright by seeking
> to control external activities and subject matter—namely, the use of
> independent programs.

Fortunately, the GPL does not prohibit this, so any analysis
of the consequences of such a prohibition is irrelevant to
the GPL.

<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
    A “covered work” means either the unmodified Program or
    a work based on the Program.
    ....
    You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do
    not convey, without conditions so long as your license
    otherwise remains in force.