Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:37:52 -0400 From: Diane Bruce <db@db.net> To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> Cc: tedm@toybox.placo.com Subject: Re: GPL vs BSD Licence Message-ID: <20041029163752.GA62159@night.dbn> In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKGEGBPGAA.davids@webmaster.com> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEJBEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKGEGBPGAA.davids@webmaster.com>
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On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 09:24:55AM -0700, David Schwartz wrote: > > > The GPL and Linux don't care if you link into their system libraries, > > they expect that which is why the system libraries are LGPLd ... > If I write a piece of code that uses a defined interface, it's utterly > preposterous to argue that it is derivative from an *implementation* of that > interface, since it could be used with *any* implementation of that > interface. I suppose, one *could* have the situation where someone does a "clean room" set of new include files derived from GPL ones. (This has happened already btw) and have the DCMA used against this derivation. (I suppose. I am not a lawyer.) - Diane
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