GPL

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Tue Oct 9 20:39:46 UTC 2007


> The FSF claim has been that if the program won't work with any library 
> except the GPL'd one, it is a derived work even if it is distributed 
> separately. 

There are things to support this sometimes being true. The fundamental
division is the notion of a "derivative work" which is a legal not a
computing construct and doesn't behave as neatly.

Never worried me as I consider postgresql the better database anyway




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