Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
- Subject: Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
- From: "Mark J. Lilback" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:24:24 -0800 (PST)
At 2:51 PM +0000 1/5/2004, Alastair Houghton wrote:
>
Actually I think the GPL is fairly clear about what is and is not a
>
derivative work; it says:
What the GPL says is irrelevant. The law defines what is a
derivative work. Unfortunately, no court has ruled on this
so we're in muddy water with the FSF/GPL saying one thing
and, IMHO, common sense saying another.
I personally can't see a court ruling that a program that
opens a GPL'd library at runtime and calls functions in it
is a derivative work of that library. The Unix/BSD rulings
said that copying/using an API isn't a violation, and a
shared library's purpose is to be shared. I don't see how
someone can arbitrarily restrict who it is shared with once
on a system.
Of course, IANAL.
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