On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 05:16:27AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Bartosz Fenski] > > Seems that part of developers think that indirect linking with > > OpenSSL is ok, and part think it's not. > Yeah. Well. Stand back and look at why this 'linking' thing matters > in the first place. The point is to determine whether one work is a > "derivative" of another work. False. This is a requirement imposed by section 3 of the GPL, which makes no mention of derivative works. > If it is not, copyright law doesn't let the author of the second work > have any influence on the licensing of the first. It lets the author of the second work control the circumstances under which you are allowed to distribute *that work*. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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