Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 17, 2006 05:23 AM
If your code has to link my code, and make direct function calls to my code, then your code is a derivation of my code.
As long as I don't change your code, and the whole product is intact, it's not a derivation in my opinion. Yes, I know you disagree. However, others don't, see <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/article/public-license-explained" title="sitepoint.com">Rosen's explanation</a sitepoint.com>: He's says the expression in the GPL: "contains or is derived from" has a very specific meaning under copyright law that effectively reduce the reach of the GPL to a licensee's own code.
However, nobody likes to test this in court so that's the FUD I was talking about. The GPL could make stand and be explicit what it wants 'derived' to mean. We'll see whether it'll do so in its next version.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 17, 2006 05:23 AMAs long as I don't change your code, and the whole product is intact, it's not a derivation in my opinion. Yes, I know you disagree. However, others don't, see <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/article/public-license-explained" title="sitepoint.com">Rosen's explanation</a sitepoint.com>: He's says the expression in the GPL: "contains or is derived from" has a very specific meaning under copyright law that effectively reduce the reach of the GPL to a licensee's own code.
However, nobody likes to test this in court so that's the FUD I was talking about. The GPL could make stand and be explicit what it wants 'derived' to mean. We'll see whether it'll do so in its next version.
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