FC4 or FC5
Sean
seanlkml at sympatico.ca
Thu Jun 15 17:20:49 UTC 2006
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:31:37 -0700 (PDT)
BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley at prodigy.net> wrote:
> I keep seeing the term 'derived' used a lot in these GPL discussions.
>
> Hum, I'm not a lawyer, but as a computer programmer I fail to see how an
> application program that I write could be considered a 'derived' work of
> some generic support library that knows nothing of the logic of my
> application program.
>
> Here is a dictionary definition definition of derived (I realize that lawyers can
> ever pervert that):
>
> formed or developed from something else; not original; "the belief that classes
> and organizations are secondary and derived"- John Dewey
> wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
>
> How could by application be derived by this definition? The library routine is
> only there to do a function or to supply data that my program needs.
>
> My program is not formed from this GPL library in question.
>
Well it's really up to the lawyers to decide, so i can only speculate. It
seems that in the case quoted by Les, the package was found to be a derivative
work, legally.
Sean
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