On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 05:34:29PM +0000, Joel Baker wrote: > On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 01:05:27PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 10:03:31PM -0700, Ken Arromdee wrote: > > > > > and of course that any document > > > written in Microsoft Word is derived from Word. > > > > I can use a word document without a copy of word, these days. There > > are at least half a dozen other things that can work with them. > > Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but by this argument, wouldn't the fact that > "can link against libcurl with GNU TLS, libcurl with OpenSSL, or libcurl > with no SSL at all" qualify it as mere aggregation - if the dividing point > is that multiple implementations, at least some of which are Free, can be > used with it? Maybe. You have implicitly introduced the notion that these three variations on libcurl are distinct, and I'm just not sure about that. This transitive option stuff is murky. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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