Re: Bug#189164: libdbd-mysql-perl uses GPL lib, may be used by GPL-incompatible apps

[Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>]

On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 10:02 PM, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:

> Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> writes:
>
> > On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 01:45 PM, Stephen Ryan wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 09:52, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:
> > >
> > > The other option, of course, is that the kernel exec() function *is* 
> > > a
> > > barrier, Debian *can* be used for real work and not just an exercise 
> > > in
> > > ivory-tower masturbation.
>
> Whoa!  Those are not my words.  I'm not quite sure whose they are.

My apologies. It appears I have destroyed the quoting somehow. Those 
are the words of Stephen Ryan 
<taketwoaspirin@deepthought.dartmouth.edu> in Message-Id: 
<[🔎] 1053711925.7273.305.camel@gargantubrain.dartmouth.edu>.

> > Well, I don't believe exec is a magic copyright barrier; instead, I
> > think we need to generalize _why_ we generally consider it be one.
>
> But this leads me to believe that we may well be on common ground;
> what generalization do you see there?

I see the generalization hinted to in the message I just posted: That 
no copyrightable elements of programs like "grep" were derived from.