Re: GPL-licensed packages with depend-chain to OpenSSL
Raul Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 04:32:17PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>> Well, then the question is, is that combined program a derived work of
>> the GPLed program?
>>
>> If it consists of two pieces: the GPLed program and the OpenSSL library
>> -- and each exists and is fully functional without the other -- and
>> neither is a derived work of the other --
>>
>> Then in that case we don't have a derived work, we have an aggregated
>> work or a collected work or some such.
>
> I'm not sure where you're going with this.
>
> Would you claim that copyright holders do not have the right to determine
> whether or not a collected work includes their copyrighted material?
No.
> If not, would you claim that in the absence of an explicit license to
> incorporate that copyrighted material in that collected work, that the
> collected work may legally include the material?
No.
> If you're not claiming either of these, are you claiming that the GPL's
> "mere aggregation" clause is intended to cover cases where the collective
> pieces are designed to work together as a Program?
Yes. Or at any rate where they can work together as a program, through
freely implementable interfaces. (If they are 'designed to work together'
in such a way that they aren't cleanly separable, then the conditions I
suggested do not apply, of course.)
Consider bash + script X + glibc -- this is mere aggregation.
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