Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code

[Lee Hollaar]

In article <40D47BF5.C3DD735@web.de> terekhov@web.de writes:
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>Lee Hollaar wrote:
>[...]
>> [static linking] but the same is not true for dynamic linking
>> (no compilation is formed until after the distribution).
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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>Red Hat, Inc. disagrees. 

Not necessarily.

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>http://www.redhat.com/licenses/advancedservereula.html
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>"Red Hat Linux itself is a collective work under U.S. Copyright Law."
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>(the term ''compilation'' includes collective works)
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>Note that "Red Hat Linux" is full of works NOT under the GPL.

They have collected a number of works and distribute them on a CD.
That's the collective work.

That says absolutely nothing about dynamic linking.