GPL vs BSD Licence
Diane Bruce
db at db.net
Fri Oct 29 09:37:58 PDT 2004
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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